A. adv. a. In an eastern direction. b. Of wind: From an eastern quarter.
c. 1667. H. Oldenburg, in Phil. Trans., II. 421. And, whether there be another people, not far from these, Eastwardly, of a Dwarfish Stature?
1747. Dobbs, in Phil. Trans., XLIV. 474. Behring sailed … to the Isles of Japon, and from thence Eastwardly 50 German miles.
1791. Smeaton, Edystone L., § 100. There is a breeze eastwardly.
1807. Vancouver, Agric. Devon (1813), 46. Continuing eastwardly along the coast.
B. adj. a. That has an eastern direction. b. Of the wind: That blows from the east.
1791. Smeaton, Edystone L., § 68. The wind was eastwardly.
1805. Flinders, in Phil. Trans., XCVI. 258. The eastwardly winds appearing to have set in.
1870. Proctor, Other Worlds, iv. 108, note. Higher latitudes where the earth’s eastwardly motion is less. Ibid. (1883), in Knowledge, 20 July, 41/2. The body at P is carried eastward by the eastwardly motion of G.
