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▪ I. wester, n. Naut. colloq.|ˈwɛstə(r)|
[f. west n.1 + -er1; cf. north-wester n. and south-wester n.]
A wind or gale blowing from the west.
1913J. Masefield Dauber v. 45 The wester came as steady as the Trades; Brightly it blew. 1933― Bird of Dawning 234 The wester was still blowing strong and true.
▪ II. wester, a. Chiefly Sc.|ˈwɛstə(r)|
Also 1 westra, Sc. 4 westyr, 4–6 westir, (5 vestir, 6 vester, weister), 7 waster.
[OE. westra (f. west west adv.) = ON. and Icel. vestri, vestari (Norw., Sw., Da. vestre). The comparative ending is different from that which appears in OHG. westar-, MHG., LG., Du., Fris. wester-, western.]
Lying (more) towards the west; western.
963in Birch Cartul. Sax. III. 363 Se westra crochyrst. 967Ibid. 486 Se westra east healh.
1365Antiq. Aberd. & Banff (Spald. Club) IV. 158 Omnes terras..de Westir Drummelochi. 1389Ibid. III. 261 Terras de Westyr Badfothellis. 1438Exch. Rolls Scotl. V. 56 De medietate terre de Westercloveth in Strathdone. 1474Acta Auditorum (1839) 33/1 Þe landis of þe westir part of Strathenry. 1490Acta Dom. Concil. (1839) 131/1 Þe landis of ester Copmalindy and Wester Copmanlindy. 1520in Laing Charters (1899) 82 Of the whiche two chambres the oone is called the wester chambre. 1584R. Norman tr. Safegard of Sailers 7 Keep off from the wester shore, for..the easter shore is deeper. 1613J. Saris Voy. Japan (Hakl. Soc.) 43 He was gone to the Wester side of the Iland. 1633T. James Voy. 35 We had..coasted the Wester side. 1680A. Haig in J. Russell Haigs xi. (1881) 309 The apple trees which is within the uppermost waster quarter. 1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4430/5 The Magistrates and Town-Council of Anstruther-Wester. 1777Watson Philip II (1793) I. x. 448 From the Easter to the Wester Scheldt. 1891Hartland (Devon) Gloss., Easter, eastern. Similarly we have Wester, Nother, and Suther. Fields are frequently distinguished as Easter and Wester. 1898A. Balfour To Arms vi, Away in the wilds of wester Dumfries.
†b. Naut. (Cf. easter a. and board n. 15.)
1697W. Dampier Voy. I. 81 But the Winds hanging in the westerbord, and blowing hard, oft put us by our Topsails; so that we could not fetch it.
▪ III. wester, v.|ˈwɛstə(r)|
[f. west adv. + -er5.]
1. intr. Of the sun, moon, or a star: To travel westward in its course; to draw near the west. (Freq. after 1850.)
c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 906 Þe sonne Gan westren faste. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy Prol. 136 And Esperus gan to wester dovn, To haste hir cours ageyn þe morwe graye. Ibid. i. 2674 Vp-on þe point whan Phebus with his liȝt I-westrid is.
1790Cowper Iliad xxiii. 195 And now the lamp of day, Westering apace, had left them still in tears. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. i. ii, The Sun shines; serenely westering, in smokeless mackerel-sky. 1850Dobell Roman ii. Poet. Wks. 1875 I. 36 The little star..westers to its setting. 1889Clarke Russell Marooned vi, The moon was westering and looking over our foretopsail yard-arm. 1922A. E. Housman Last Poems xxvi, The half moon westers low.
fig.1845R. W. Hamilton Pop. Educ. x. 330 Instead of turning to the sun of a once mighty prosperity as now fast westering and going down.
2. Of the wind: To shift to the west.
1580H. Smith in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 468 The wind did Wester, so that we lay South southwest with a flawne sheete. 1628Digby Voy. Mediterr. (Camden) 93 The wind northered vpon vs. Att night it westered againe. 1699T. Allison Voy. Archangel 11 We..began to consider..as to our safety in that place, should the Wind Wester. 1823Scoresby Jrnl. 373 The wind having unfortunately westered. 1913M. Roberts Salt of Sea x. 233 The wind westered so fast that I nearly jibed the mainboom.
3. To be moved farther west. nonce-use.
1803W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. I. 361 Let Germany awake, and give herself a better constitution..and the frontiers of France will wester again.
▪ IV. wester
var. waster n.3 |