1575 W. Patten Cal. Script. 19 Occidentalis..Westernly.

1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia 25 They haue many enimies, namely all their westernely Countries beyond the mountaines.

1692 C. Gildon Post-boy rob'd of his Mail I. i. liv. 170 'Tis true, the Language of most Beasts is not so numerous, as ours, nor is that of Hebrew so stock'd with Words, as the more Westernly Tongues.

1774 Extracts Votes & Proc. Amer. Continental Congr. 38 The limits of that province are extended so as to comprehend those vast regions, that lie adjoining to the northernly and westernly boundaries of these colonies.

1799 T. Reynolds in A. Antoninus Iter Britanniarum Introd. 107 In tracing the western coast it will be convenient to begin with that place, which has the most westernly situation.

1850 Ecclesiologist Aug. 111 The church..is of great simplicity of plan, consisting of a clerestoried nave, and aisles of five bays, with a tower surmounted by a broach spire engaged in the most westernly bay on the north side.

1875 J. S. C. Abbott Hist. State of Ohio i. 30 They reached the summit of the most westernly ridge, and gazed..upon the Eden-like beauty of the scene which was spread out before them.

1921 P. S. Mowrer Balkanized Europe i. iii. 16 The European center of gravity shifted for a time across the Adriatic to a more westernly peninsula.

1997 R. Buckley Hong Kong: Road to 1997 iii. 61 The rival to Sha Tin was the proposal to develop in the more westernly coastal areas of Tuen Mun.

c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 52 Wee..after altered that course and bear for the coste of Florida, a more westernlie course.

1644 G. Wild Serm. preached 3rd March St. Maries Oxf. 27 To look East upon the Rising Laity, and to reflect a Westernly Glance upon the declining Clergy.

1791 J. Smeaton Hist. Rep. Ramsgate Harbour vii. 64 If another Sluice was built, it would..countervail any difference that might arise from the more Westernly direction of the Harbour's Mouth.

1848 B. Webb Sketches Continental Ecclesiol. 482 Thus nineteen [churches] have an easternly orientation:—and exactly nineteen also have a westernly direction.

1897 Daily News 21 May 5/5 The road..next turns in a westernly direction.

1904 G. Sandberg Explor. Tibet ix. 198 The travellers..struck at right angles across the celebrated Russian traveller's westernly route.

1995 S. S. Tunga Bengali & Related Dial. South Assam i. 6 Another band of people..took shelter in Burma and following the courses of Irrawaddy, Chindwin and other rivers entered Assam in an westernly direction.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 580 The viceadmirall in the middle of the fleet with a great squadron of gallies, hauing a faire Westernly wind, strucke saile directly before the mouth of the hauen.

1703 H. Sheres Disc. Mediterranian Sea, & Streights Gibraltar in Misc. Hist. & Philol. 10 Upon the coming up of a Westernly Wind, which seems to further and usher it in its Course.

1821 Monthly Mag. July 498/2 Fair winds from America to England generally prevail; because westernly winds are most frequent in the Atlantic during nine months of the year.

1853 A. Harris Martin Beck xxxix. 355 Over-head, along the tree-tops, the heavy westernly gale kept up one long unbroken roar.

1970 Shawinigan (Quebec) Standard 17 June 16/2 The plane..took off normally into a Westernly breeze.

2002 G. Bhargava Ecol. Polit. xiv. 283 On average the prevailing westernly winds could decrease, particularly in the winter period.

1588 W. Kempe Educ. Children C iv Yea, in one house, we heare one speake Northernly, another Westernly, another Kentishly.

1855 Times 20 Dec. 6/6 Just as the King was about to start off thither [sc. to the court of Mecklenburg-Strelitz], he replied, ‘Who knows but what I may return quite Westernly disposed?’

1905 Motor Age 16 Feb. 14/2 There was something westernly wonderful in the way the people of Chicago and the surrounding territory patronized the show last week.

1983 Christian Sci. Monitor 15 Feb. 12/1 Dressing more stylishly—and often, more Westernly—is a preoccupation... Young Russians pass quick and critical judgement on the clothes of their peers.

1997 E. H. Kim in E. H. Kim et al. Making more Waves iv. 190 Instead of being downcast as might be expected in Chinese society, their eyes stare brazenly and Westernly at the viewer.

1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 9 France..being westernly seated neere great Brittaine.

1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged xxi. §4 The ancient Inhabitants knowne to the Romans, were the Dobuni, part whereof possessed further Westernly into Glocester-shire.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 136 Why the same Eclipse..should be seen to them that live one degree more Westernly.

1799 T. Reynolds in A. Antoninus Iter Britanniarum Introd. 69 This branch of Watling street did not pass through Wroxeter in its progress westernly, into Wales.

1841 J. James Hist. & Topogr. Bradford 276 In Eccleshill and Shipley there are two or three woollen mills, but more northernly or westernly one cannot be found in Bradford parish.

1859 Times 27 Aug. 7/4 From the most distant battery on the eastern side of the castle to the last gun mounted westernly on the Citadel.

1910 H. Haymond Hist. Harrison County 20 They discovered and gave the name to Stone Coal Creek, which flowing westernly induced them to believe that it emptied into the Ohio River.

1997 Bangkok Post (Nexis) 7 Dec. 4 Scientists have now applied the term El Nino to the major warming episodes over large South American coastal areas and westernly along the equator and the Dateline area.