Now rare. [f. WESTERN a. + -LY1. Cf. WESTERLY a.]
1. Situated in or towards the west.
1622. Blundevil, Exerc., Descr. Univ. Maps (ed. 6), 790. The Westernly [1597 Westerly] 18 Meridians.
1657. J. Watts, Scribe etc. Dipper Sprinkled, 50. Our Westernly Northen Climate is colder much then those Easternly Southern.
2. Directed towards the west; extending westwards.
c. 1595. Capt. Wyatt, Dudley’s Voy. (Hakl. Soc.), 52. Wee … after altered that course and bear for the coste of Florida, a more westernlie course.
1643. G. Wilde, Serm. bef. Ho. Comm., 3 March, 27. To look East upon the Rising Laity, and to reflect a Westernly Glance upon the declining Clergy.
1848. B. Webb, Cont. Ecclesiol., 482. Thus nineteen [churches] have an easternly orientation:—and exactly nineteen also have a westernly direction.
1897. Daily News, 21 May, 5/5. The road … next turns in a westernly direction.
