a. Sc. Also 8 -len. [var. of westlan’ WESTLAND 2.] Western; westerly.

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17[?].  Patie & Peggy, Chorus, in Ramsay, Tea-t. Misc. Sun, gallop down the westlin skies.

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1721.  Ramsay, Keitha, 27. Ye westlin Winds that gently us’d to play On her white Breast. Ibid. (1728), To Starrat, 6. Welcome, as Westlen Winds, or Berries ripe.

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1785.  Burns, Ep. to Davie, 6. To … spin a verse or twa o’ rhyme, In hamely, westlin’ jingle.

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1813.  Hogg, Queen’s Wake, Kilmeny, ii. When the fringe was red on the westlin hill.

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1830.  Galt, Lawrie T., I. ii. The goodwill of the westlin winds.

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1898.  J. Lumsden, Edin. Poems & Songs (1899), 168. A-doun the Westlin welkin.

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