wester

plural westers

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

present singular third person westers · participle present westering · participle past westered · past westered

1. To move towards the west.

   The rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone,

   1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, XI, line 1-2

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

   1910, James George Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy, volume 1, page ix

   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.

   1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Very Old Folk

1. dialectalnot comparableWestern, westerly.

   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 […]

   1885, Alex Johnston Warden, Angus Or Forfarshire: The Land and People, Descriptive and Historical, page 204

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

   1828, The Picture of Scotland, page 187

   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 […]

   1887, Walter Wood, The East Neuk of Fife: Its History and Antiquities, page 118

   '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, ...

   2011, J.I.M. Stewart, Mungo's Dream, House of Stratus, →ISBN, page 219

2. comparativenot comparablecomparative form of west: more west

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   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.

   1969 January 6, Bertram L. Podell, Congressional Record, United States, page 276

plural Westers

1. A surname.