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region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean. Far o'er the glowing western main. Keble.

A native or inhabitant of the west.

Situated the farthest towards the west; most western.

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

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

of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first let…

A narrow pass or defile; a break in a mesa; the mouth of a cañon. [Southwestern U. S.]

Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.

A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset.

oints to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.

sing or setting. At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator.

plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.

A large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transport produce to market.

Of or pertaining to the northwestern part of France (formerly called Armorica, now Bretagne or Brittany), or to its people. -- n.

The dry bed of a small stream. [Western U. S.]

A native or an inhabitant of Ashantee in Western Africa.

staceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish.

One who works a mine with means provided by another. [Sp. Amer. & Southwestern U. S.]

To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. [Western U.S.]

A men living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States. Fisher Ames.