[f. WESTWARD adv.]
1. a. Of wind: Blowing from the westward.
1653. Nissena, 107. [They] hoist up their Sails, the wind being Westwardly, and good for their intended Navigation.
1706. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), VI. 10. The wind being westwardly, a general embarkation is making at Harwich for Holland.
1805. Phil. Trans., XCVI. 249, note. He expected a continuance of fine, clear weather, with westwardly winds.
1876. Davis, Polaris Exp., 259. The pack was driven in by a westwardly wind.
b. Moving or flowing westward.
1870. Proctor, Other Worlds, iv. 108, note. The relatively cold and westwardly equatorial currents.
2. Situated to the westward.
1704. Phil. Trans., XXV. 1634. The Section [seemed] to be a small matter more Westwardly.
1703. Act 33 Geo. III., c. 131. title, The road leading from Uttoxeter to the westwardly part of Hardiwick heath.
