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Westerly   /wˈɛstərli/   Listen
Westerly

adjective
1.
Of wind; from the west.  Synonym: western.
2.
Moving toward the west.  Synonyms: westbound, westward.
noun
1.
The winds from the west that occur in the temperate zones of the Earth.  Synonym: prevailing westerly.
adverb
1.
Toward the west.
2.
From the west.  Antonym: easterly.



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"Westerly" Quotes from Famous Books



... angel commanded him to set aside certain of the relics—among them an arm-bone and three fingers of the Apostle—and to conceal them for a time in a certain spot indicated. Another vision later on directed the holy man to set sail with the relics in a north-westerly direction "towards the ends of the earth," and when the vessel should be in danger of shipwreck on a northern coast to recognise that as a sign that a church should be built near that spot in honour {150} of St. Andrew, where the ...
— A Calendar of Scottish Saints • Michael Barrett

... Condinia, Wietepsky, M'Stitslof, Lord of all the Northern Lands, Lord of the Land of Iversky, Czar of Cartalinsky and Grusinsky, and of the Land of Cardadinsky, Prince of the Circasses and Gorshes, heir of his Father and Grand-father, and Lord and Sovereign of many other Easterly, Westerly, and Northerly Lordships and Dominions." Milton, for the Protector, is somewhat more economical and uses Rex ...
— The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 • David Masson

... August 13, provisioned the squadron for five weeks, and sailed the same evening. On the 16th he was back off Niagara, and there again sighted the enemy; but a heavy westerly gale drove both squadrons to the lower end of the lake, where each entered its own harbor on the 19th. August 29 the American put out again, having an additional newly built schooner, named the "Sylph," large and ...
— Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 - Volume 2 • Alfred Thayer Mahan

... stood open upon a richly stored flower garden, from which the refreshing fragrance of dewy roses, lilies, violets, cape jasmines, and other aromatic plants was wafted by the westerly breeze. ...
— For Woman's Love • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... when I was guided by the friendly chief of the Bogan tribe to the best water holes his country afforded. By the route I had selected from my former surveys, I had cut off the great bend described by the Bogan in changing from a north- westerly to a northerly course, and the track now left by our wheels will probably continue to be used as a road, when the banks of the Bogan may be again occupied by the colonists. At Darwere still most substantial stock-yards, ...
— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell


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