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Lying toward the west. Yond same star that's westward from the pole. Shak.

Toward the west; as, to ride or sail westward. Westward the course of empire takes its way. Berkeley.

In a westward direction.

Toward the northwest.

Toward the southwest.

hich the Argive squadron steers Their silent course to Ilium's well known shore. Dennham. Westward the course of empire takes its way. Berkeley.

f real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest. "The drama of war." Thackeray. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. Berkeley. The drama and contrivances of God's providence. Sharp.…

) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.

f an ancient people (or perhaps group of peoples) whose settlements extended from Armenia westward into Asia Minor and southward into Palestine. They are known to have been met along the Orontes as early as 1500 b. c., and were often at war with the Egyptians and Assyrians. Especially in the north they developed a cons…

-pointed and barbellate grain into the wool and flesh of sheep. It is found from Illinois westward. See Illustration in Appendix. -- Porcupine wood (Bot.), the hard outer wood of the cocoa palm; -- so called because, when cut horizontally, the markings of the wood resemble the quills of a porcupine.…

A portion of the southern equatorial current flowing westward from the Fiji Islands to New Guinea.

In the direction of the sun's apparent motion, or from the east southward and westward, and so around the circle; also, in the same direction as the movement of the hands of a watch lying face upward.

The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident.

Toward the west; westward.