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west-south-west, adv. etc.
[See west adv. and south-west. Cf. MLG. westsûtwest, Du. -zuid-, G. -süd-.]
In or from the direction situated midway between west and south-west. Also as n. and adj.
a. adv.14..Sailing Directions (Hakl. Soc. 1889) 11 It flowith west southwest. Ibid. 13 Yif..the wynde be west south west. c1440Pallad. on Husb. iii. 470 And west south⁓west [L. in fauonium] hem for to order best is. 1513Sir E. Howard in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. I. 214 On mondey the wynd cam west sowth west. 1584R. Norman tr. Safegard of Sailers 21 b, The floud sets east northeast, and the ebbe west southwest. 1698Hennepin New Discov. Amer. i. 78 Steering our Course West-South-West, with a favourable Wind. 1760R. Rogers Jrnls. (1769) 197 We..kept the following courses: west-south-west two miles, west-north-west three miles. 1833–4J. Phillips Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VI. 544/1 Less certain and continuous fissures passing nearly East North-East and West South-West.
b. adj.1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xi. iii. (1495) 386 The weste Southweste wynde hyghte Zephirus. 14..Sailing Directions (Hakl. Soc. 1889) 14 All the havens be full at a west south west moone. a1550Leland Itin. (1764) III. 12 An Hospital of S. John yet stonding at the West South West End of the Town. 1611Cotgr., Vent d'aval, a West South-west wind. 1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 123 The West South west end of this once Regall Towne.
c. n.1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 77 The shores bended..sumetyme towarde the Weste and westesouthwest. a1592Greene & Lodge Looking Gl. (1598) E 1, Now the wind doth serue, And sweetly blowes a gale at West, Southwest. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville I. iii. 61 One of these branches rises in the west south-west. 1839H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall, etc. i. 8 On the west-south-west of the same district.
Hence west-south-ˈwesterly a.
1881W. Powell in Proc. R. Geog. Soc. (N.S.) III. 92 A long straight piece of coast, running in a west-south-westerly direction. |