wester
Collocations
4ADJ.
rainy
VERB + WESTER
said, seen
WESTER + NOUN
anstruther, burghs, centuries, coull, horizon, orion, prone, rires
PREP.
on
Definitions
noun
A strong westerly wind, a wind blowing from the west.
verb
To move towards the west
My sun is westering, and the lengthening shadows remind me to work while it is day.
The hills rose scarlet and gold to the north of the little town, and the westering sun shone ruddily and mystically on the crude new stone and plaster buildings of the dusty forum and the wooden walls of the circus some distance to the east.
adj
Western, westerly.
This is properly two, if not three towns — there being an Easter Anstruther and a Wester Anstruther, both burghs, besides a large fishing village […]
There had been a Little and a Meikle, and an Easter and a Wester Coull two centuries ago; and there had been a castle on the property […]
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6My sun is westering, and the lengthening shadows remind me to work while it is day.
WiktionaryThe hills rose scarlet and gold to the north of the little town, and the westering sun shone ruddily and mystically on the crude new stone and plaster buildings of the dusty forum and the wooden walls
WiktionaryThe rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone,
WiktionaryThis is properly two, if not three towns — there being an Easter Anstruther and a Wester Anstruther, both burghs, besides a large fishing village […]
WiktionaryThere had been a Little and a Meikle, and an Easter and a Wester Coull two centuries ago; and there had been a castle on the property […]
WiktionaryIt is styled, as we have seen, Wester Rires, which implies an Easter Rires; and this last portion of it probably lay to the north-east, and included […]
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