Wester

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

A strong westerly wind, a wind blowing from the west..

Definitions by Sense

1. A strong westerly wind, a wind blowing from the west.
2. To move towards the west
3. (now dialectal) Western, westerly.
4. comparative form of west: more west

Example Sentences

My sun is westering, and the lengthening shadows remind me to work while it is day.

The hills rose scarlet and gold to the north of the little town, and the westering sun shone ruddily and mystically on the crude new stone and plaster buildings of the dusty forum and the wooden walls of the circus some distance to the east.

The rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone,

This is properly two, if not three towns — there being an Easter Anstruther and a Wester Anstruther, both burghs, besides a large fishing village […]

There had been a Little and a Meikle, and an Easter and a Wester Coull two centuries ago; and there had been a castle on the property […]

It is styled, as we have seen, Wester Rires, which implies an Easter Rires; and this last portion of it probably lay to the north-east, and included […]

'The fact remains that there is an Easter Fintry and a Wester Fintry in this part of the world. Just as there is an Easter Golford and a Wester Golford, ...

President-elect Nixon [...] pointed out that Alaska is even wester than Hawaii. [...] had Mr. Nixon searched just a few leagues wester our Secretary of the Interior might have turned out to be a citizen of Kichighinsk. Nor is there anything in the history of the United States that validates the presupposition that anyone who is wester than anybody is simultaneously and necessatily more interior than anybody.

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• westers
• westering
• westered

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