bewestadv.prep.
/bɪˈwɛst/ On or to the west. Obsolete.
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westeOE
west-abouteOE
westeneOE
westwardeOE
bewest1016
westwardsOE
westly1440
westerlya1470
westwardly?1520
westernly1590
west-away1599
westlins1718
west-by1790
a-west1807
wessel1815
westlandways1820
nightwards1855
westbound1888
1016 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) Be westan.
1106 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud)
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 172 Huþe halimon..sech bi west to ȝein him swa muche ferd of deoflen.
1475 Bk. Noblesse (1860) 9 The regions be west of Rome.
B. prep.
To the west of. Now only Scottish.
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a855 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 709 Be westan wuda.
c1275 Laȝamon Brut 2136 Camber hafde al him seolf bi weste Seuarne.
1525 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1527 96/1 Nixt befor Sanct Michaelis altar be West the said altar.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 294 In Inchchennane, schort gait bewest Glasgw.
1661 J. Lamont Diary (1830) 139 The Earle of Weyms be~ganne to bueld a new harbory for shipping, a little be west Saltgreine.
a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) x. 276 The sea be-west Inverkeithing.
1714 R. Smith Poems 2 Let all be-west the Spittel come.
1816 A. Boswell Poet. Wks. (1871) 167 His anxious ee, but firm and fierce, Wander'd bewast the Loch o' Kerse.
1883 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 636 Bewest North Berwick Law.
1950 N. M. Gunn White Hour (1990) 233 But what of us bewest your bridge, outside your ports?
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