a. and adv. [f. prec. + -LY.]
† A. adj. Situated to the eastward, or on the east side; of the wind, blowing from the east; = EASTERLY. Obs.
1594. Blundevil, Exerc., viii. (ed. 7), 790. You shall easily draw the Easternly Meridians.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, I. 39. These hottest regions of the world … are refreshed with a daily gale of Easternely wind.
1688. Lond. Gaz., No. 2325/1. Volhinia, the most Easternly Province of Lithuania.
B. adv. † a. In an eastern position (obs.). b. In an eastern manner; after the fashion of the Easterns (rare).
1765. Michell, in Phil. Trans., LV. 76. Somewhere about the place D, a little less easternly than the point of the sand.
1883. Athenæum, 9 June, 724/1. Men who know nothing of the East … and cannot think easternly.
