adv. and prep. [OE. bewestan, f. BE- prep. + westan from the west: cf. BE-EAST.]

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  † A.  adv. On or to the west. Obs.

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1016.  O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.). Be westan. ibid. (1106).

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 232. Hu þe holi mon … iseih biwesten aȝan him so muchel uerde of deoflen.

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1475.  Bk. Noblesse (1860), 9. The regions be west of Rome.

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  B.  prep. To the west of. Now only Sc.

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a. 855.  O. E. Chron., an. 709. Be westan wuda.

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1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot., 28936. In Inchchennane, schort gait bewest Glasgw.

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1676.  W. Row, Contn. Blair’s Autobiog., x. (1848), 276. The sea be-west Inverkeithing.

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1883.  Blackw. Mag., Nov., 636. Bewest North Berwick Law.

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