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West wind, west-wind. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. West wind, west-wind [OE. westwind, = OS., MLG., MDu., G. westwind, WFris. westewyn, NFris. wāstwinj. OE. had also westanwind = ON. vestanvindr (Norw. vestan-, Da. vestenvind), MHG. westenwint.] The (or a) wind blowing from the west. Also with a and pl.

1 c. 900.  Bæda’s Hist., V. xix. (1890), 458. Sona þæs þe he on scyp eode … bleow westwind.

2 a. 1400.  Nominale (Skeat), 567. Vent galerne … west-wynde.

3 c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 523/1. West wynde, zephirus.

4 1495.  Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., XI. iii. 386. Fauonius, the Weste wynde arysyth in the Weste.

5 1535.  Coverdale, Exod. x. 19. The Lorde turned a maruelous stronge west wynde.

6 1577.  D. Settle, Frobisher’s Voy., B vij. Within foure dayes … the Northwest and West windes dispersed the yce into the Sea.

7 1634.  Milton, Comus, 989. And West winds, with musky wing About the cedar’n alleys fling Nard.

8 1645.  Boate, Irel. Nat. Hist. (1652), 176. As the West-winds are much more common in Ireland,… than the East.

9 1715.  Pope, Iliad, IV. 319. The Cloud condensing as the West-Wind blows.

10 1819.  Wordsw., Sonn. ‘Lone Flower,’ 11. Bright jonquils, their odours lavishing On the soft west-wind and his frolic peers.

11 1892.  Kipling, Barrack-room Ballads, etc., 178. The West Wind called.

12   attrib.  1601.  Holland, Pliny, X. lx. I. 301. Some are of opinion that the wind will engender them: for which cause also they are called Zephyria [i. West-wind-egs].

13   Hence West-winded, West-windy adjs.

14 1851.  G. W. Curtis, Nile Notes, xliv. 22. That west-winded, rose-odoured street.

15 1850.  Hawthorne, Amer. Note-bks. (1883), 379. It being a bright, westwindy, bracing day.

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