Obs. Also 4 ester, 6 Sc. eister. [perh. comparative of EAST a. (OE. had éasterra); possibly suggested by Du. ooster- in compounds.] Nearest the east; eastern (part of a country, a building, etc.). Also in comb., as easter-board.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (1865), I. 257. Boemya is þe firste prouince of þat ester Germania.
1513–75. Diurn. Occurr. (1833), 29. James Colvillis sone [was restoirit] to his landis of eister Weymes.
1591. Harington, trans. Ariosto’s Orl. Fur., XXIII. vi. The dawning brake, and all the Easter parts were full of light.
1622. R. Hawkins, Voy. S. Sea (1847), 117. This bay is all sandie and cleane ground on the easter part. Ibid., 135. One evening, being calme, and a goodly cleare in the easter-boord, I willed our anchor to be weyed.
1708. Lond. Gaz., No. 4430/4. The Town of Anstruther-Easter.
1777. Watson, Philip II. (1793), I. x. 448. Covering it from north to south, that is, from the Easter to the Wester Scheld, with water.
1816. Scott, Old Mort., x. He’s keeping guard o’er Milnwood in the easter round of the tower.
