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Of or pertaining to the west; toward the west; coming from the west; western.

Toward the northwest, or from the northwest.

To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.

A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory.

The most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in Bohemia and Moravia.

ch, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.

A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt, coming from the Sahara. [Written also Khamseen.]

g in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course.

n connection with its diurnal rotation; -- so called because either equinox, owing to its westerly motion, comes to the meridian sooner each day than the point it would have occupied without the motion of precession, and thus precedes that point continually with reference to the time of transit and motion.…

middle latitudes of the southern hemisphere. So called from the boisterous and prevailing westerly winds, which are especially strong in the South Indian Ocean up to 50º S.

Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwesterly; as, to sail a southwestern course.