wester

noun 1verb 1adj 1name 1

Definitions

noun

1

A strong westerly wind, a wind blowing from the west.

verb

1

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

1

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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