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▪ I. ˈwestering, vbl. n.
[f. wester v.]
Westward movement, declension westwards.
c1410Lydg. Life Our Lady lxxi. (MS. Ashm. 39 lf. 89) This sterre..To shewe hys light in euery shrowed & shade With oute westrynge or drawynge to declyne.
▪ II. westering, ppl. a.|ˈwɛstərɪŋ|
[f. wester v.]
1. That declines from the meridian towards the west. (Said chiefly of the sun when it is nearing the western horizon.)
In very common use from c 1840.
1637Milton Lycidas 31 Oft till the Star that rose, at Ev'ning, bright Toward Heav'ns descent had slop'd his westering wheel. 1790Cowper Odyss. xi. 19 Earthward he slopes again his westering wheels. 1795Southey Lett. Spain (1799) 34 Hills beyond hills,..part involved in shadow, and the more distant illumined by the westering sun. 1802Leyden Lord Soulis xx, And bloody set the westering sun. 1831Moore Summer Fête 132 Warned..by the daylight's westering beam. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede liii, The low westering sun shone right on the shoulders of the old Binton Hills. 1894Blackmore Perlycross vii. 56 By the light of the westering moon.
fig.1851Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Wind. i. 403 Learn The strong man's impulse..and discern By his clear westering eye, the time of day. 1885–94Bridges Eros & Psyche March xiv, Eros..was Cupid named anew In westering aftertime of latin lore.
2. That moves in a westward direction. Of the wind: That shifts to the west.
1747Collins Ode Liberty 84 Mona,..Where thousand Elfin Shapes abide, And Wight who checks the west'ring Tide. 1871Swinburne Songs bef. Sunrise, Eve of Rev. 66 Asia, that sawest their westering waters sweep With all the ships and spoils of time to carry. 1896Kipling Seven Seas, Three Sealers 142 There comes no good o' the westering wind that backs against the sun. |