Also 5 weste-, 5–6 westwarde, 7 westheard. [OE. westweard, f. WEST adv. + -WARD. Cf. MLG. westwart, -wert, -wort.]
A. adv. 1. Towards the west; in a westerly direction: a. Of motion or direction.
For Westward ho! see HO int.1 2 b.
a. 900. O. E. Chron., an. 893. Her … for se micle here … of þæm eastrice westweard to Bunnan.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., III. 270. Þa seofon steorran … gangende eastan westweard.
O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.), an. 1052. Hi … ʓewendon heom þa westweard oð þet hi comon to Portlande.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 1039. So þat he drou him westward,… þe se he wende nei & bihuld west.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XVIII. 118. Her suster … cam … Euene out of þe est, and westward she loked.
c. 1391. Chaucer, Astrol., II. § 17. Espie diligently whan this same firste sterre passeth … westward.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xxviii. 127. It lastez westward to þe ryuer of Phison.
c. 1407. Lydg., Reson & Sens., 658. Whan that he hath hys cours [y-]goon,… Ageyn westwarde he doth repaire.
1473. Warkw., Chron. (Camden), 9. Thei fledde westwarde to the see syde, and toke there here schippys.
1535. Coverdale, Ezek. xlv. 7. As farre as reacheth westwarde and eastwarde.
1593. T. Fale, Horolog., 9 b. If the declination of your plat be Westward, or from C. toward B.
1613. Donne, Poems (1633), 170. Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Somerset (1662), 32. Hence forward the Sun of the Kings cause declined, verging more and more Westward, till at last it set in Cornwal.
1697. Dryden, Æneis, XI. 1316. But westward to the Sea the Sun declin’d.
1752. Berkeley, Verses Planting Arts & Learn. Amer., 21. Westward the course of empire takes its way.
1783. J. King, Thoughts on Difficulties, etc. iii. 29. We were told by a priest, professing Paganism in a Christian country, ten or twelve years ago, that all the virtues were flying westward.
1816. Keats, Ep. Geo. Keats, 141. Why westward turn? ’Twas but to say adieu!
1822. Scott, Nigel, v. The citizen … rode on westward along the Strand.
1848. B. Webb, Cont. Ecclesiol., 160. Projecting westward from the nave-arch is a stone rood-loft.
1877. Ruskin, St. Mark’s Rest, iii. 40. Look, as you recross its bridge, westward, along the broad-flowing stream.
b. Of relative position.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 1036. Estward ther stood a gate of Marbul whit, Westward right swich another in the opposit.
1390. Gower, Conf., III. 103. And thanne upon that other syde westward … The brother … Aufrique nam.
1472–75. Rolls of Parlt., VI. 157/2. Almaner Woll … except Wolle to be shipped westward in Galees or Carrykkes, to be shipped and caried oute of this Reame, shal be conveyed to the Staple of Caleys.
1530. Tindale, Exod. xxvii. 12. And in the bredth of the courte westwarde, there shalbe hangynges of fyftye cubettes long.
1598. W. Phillip, trans. Linschoten, I. xciii. 171. We … compassed about ye other corner that lay westward from vs.
1601. Holland, Pliny, VI. xxx. I. 147. He telleth … that Westward there are people … whose king hath but one eie.
1631. Weever, Anc. Funeral Mon., 642. A certaine holy Crosse, found farre Westward, and brought hither by miracle.
1773. Noorthouck, New Hist. London, 742. From Bedford house on the same line westward, is Great Russel street Bloomsbury.
1810. Scott, Lady of L., I. xxvi. Due westward, fronting to the green, A rural portico was seen.
a. 1861. Clough, ‘Say not, the struggle nought availeth,’ 16. In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright!
c. Followed by of.
1691. Hist. Rel. Late Presbyt. Gen. Assembly, 6. For twenty Miles Westward of Perth, there were but two or three Ministers.
1762. Falconer, Shipwr., III. 238. Westward of these … lies The long-lost isle of Ithacus the wise.
1821. Acc. Peculations in Coal Trade, 4. Their papers should not be sent from the ship until she has arrived westward of Blackwall.
1842. Borrow, Bible in Spain, xxxvi. It is situated about twelve leagues … westward of Madrid.
d. Comb., as westward-blowing, -flowing, etc.
1871. Tennyson, Last Tourn., 584. Those far-rolling, westward-smiling seas.
1875. Encycl. Brit., III. 105/1. The problem of the destination of the westward-flowing rivers.
1891. Nation (N. Y.), 19 Nov., 393/1. The westward-looking portion of this volume.
1895. Daily News, 24 Dec., 6/1. That fierce westward-blowing gale of fire.
† 2. spec. In allusive use: To Tyburn. Obs.
1600. Locke about You, A 2 b. if they doe so, faith, westward then with Skinke.
1605. Chapman, etc., Eastward Hoe, II. i. B 3 b. Touch. Sir, Eastward hoe, will make you go Westward hoe.
1607. Dekker & Webster, Westw. Hoe, IV. ii. G 1 b. You … look as if you were going westward indeede.
1626. H. Parrot, Cures for the Itch, A 2 b. If any thing happen…, it must accrew from the next Sessions, prouided there be some to trauel westward.
1647. A. B. [? Brewer], Countrie Girle, I 3 b. Greg. … Is’t not time he should now goe downward? Hu. And time, that you should goe Westward.
3. quasi-sb. = next.
1697. Dryden, Æneid, IX. 909. Like the Storm that flies From Westward, when the Show’ry Kids arise.
1810. Scott, Lady of L., IV. vii. My followers guard each pass’s mouth, To east, to westward, and to south.
B. sb. That direction or part that lies to the West of a place, etc.
1652. H. Phillippes, Geometr. Sea-man, 79. Which … differs in longitude from the former place 90 degrees to the Westward.
1673. in Picton, L’pool Munic. Rec. (1883), I. 316. To make cleare and pave the street on the cock of the Castell to the westheard.
1695. Lond. Gaz., No. 3099/3. The same day passed by the Hastings, with about 12 sail to the Westward.
1725. De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 308. They … saw two rockets rise up from the westward.
1762. Falconer, Shipwr., III. 57. The prow, swift wheeling, to the westward flies.
1838. Sterling, in Carlyle, Life, II. vii. (1872), 145. The highest part … which commands a view … of the vale of the Arno to the westward.
1874. J. Forrest, Explor. Australia (1875), 224. Sure enough there were the tracks of horses coming from the westward.
b. Const. of.
1766. Smollett, Trav., xii. I. 213. The river Var falls into the Mediterranean … about four miles to the westward of Nice.
1776. Trial of Nundocomar, 60/1. Q. Where is that place? To the westward of Sasserum.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 138. Directing his course to the westward of Cape Farewell.
1896. Baden-Powell, Matabele Campaign, xv. About three miles to the westward of the mountain.
C. adj. Having a westerly situation or direction; lying, facing, moving, etc., towards the west.
1872. Jenkinson, Guide Eng. Lakes (1879), 333. On completing the worst part of the climb, and obtaining a westward prospect.
1886. C. E. Pascoe, London of To-day, xxvi. (ed. 3), 241. Let us retrace our steps … to the westward end of Cheapside.
1896. Howells, Impress. & Exp., 282. One of the westward avenues.
1900. Jrnl. Sch. Geog. (U.S.), April, 134. A further link in the westward series … was finished in 1837.
