[f. as prec.] In or to the westward; in a westerly direction.
1519. Interl. Four Elem. (Percy Soc.), 27. And next from them westwardly, Here by hymselfe, alone doth ly Ireland.
a. 1631. Donne, Poems, Love-Lect. Shadow, 19. If love once faint, and westwardly declyne.
1756. Toldervy, Hist. 2 Orphans, IV. 76. After steering their course westwardly a few days, they met with a shabby company of strollers.
1794. Vancouver, Agric. Cambridge, 69. Thence extending westwardly.
1837. W. Irving, Capt. Bonneville, I. v. 96. The travellers took final leave of the Sweet Water,… keeping westwardly.
1892. A. E. Lee, Hist. Columbus (Ohio), I. 327. Westwardly … traveled an interminable caravan of emigrants.
