Now only attrib. Also 7 pl. India’s. [WEST a. Cf. EAST INDIA.]
† 1. = WEST INDIES. Also pl. Obs.
1555. Eden (title), The Decades of the newe worlde or west India.
1578. T. Nicholas (title), The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the Weast India, now called new Spayne.
1598. Cures of Diseased, C. A great Fruit that growes in the West India, called Pina.
1648. Gage (title), The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land: or, A new Survey of the West India’s.
2. attrib. (sometimes hyphened.) Of or pertaining to, connected with, the West Indies. West India Islands, the islands lying between North and South America.
1656. Whitelocke, Mem. (1853), IV. 281. An account of the engagement with the West India Spanish fleet.
1709. Lond. Gaz., No. 4522/3. Three other of the West-India Ships were also taken.
1731. Arbuthnot, Aliments (1735), 177. The West-India dry Gripes are perhaps occasion’d by the too great Quantities of Acids.
1757. [Burke], Europ. Settlem. Amer., VII. xxviii. II. 273. All sorts of lumber for the West-India trade.
1774. E. Long, Jamaica, III. 806. West India Tea—Capraria, erecta ramosa &c.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), I. 644/1. In Jamaica and others of the West India islands.
1818. Mathews’s Bristol Directory, 28. West India Brokers. Ibid., 41. West India Merchants.
1847. C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, xxvii. The thin partitions of the West-India house.
