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West ˈIndies
[west a. See Indies and cf. East Indies.]
†a. The parts of America first discovered by Columbus and other early navigators. Obs.
b. The West India Islands.
1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 208 Suche thynges as I haue seene in yowre Empyre of the West Indies. 1577Eden & Willes (title) The History of Trauayle in the West and East Indies. 1594Blundevil Exerc., Descr. Univ. Maps (1597) 368 b, America, which we now call the West Indies. 1625Bacon Ess., Viciss. Things ⁋1 The great Burnings by Lightnings, which are often in the West Indies. 1647Cowley Mistr., Leaving Me 15 Mine too her rich West-Indies were below, Where Mines of Gold and endless treasures grow. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ iii. iv. §4 All those strange species of animals seen in the West-Indies. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Melo, Those Melons which are produc'd in the West-Indies are generally very large. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xx, He was heir to a fortune..left him by an uncle in the West Indies. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxvii, Providing the infant negroes in the West Indies with flannel waistcoats.
Comb.1616Capt. J. Smith Descr. New Eng. Wks. (Arb.) 225 The next was a West Indies man, of 160 tuns. [Cf. next and West Indiaman.] |