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west

  • adjective
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Grammar
west, []; spve. west[e]mest; adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§80; §446; §557; §558;
Westerly, situated in the west
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  • Rómána onweald, se is mǽst and westmest,

      Ors. 6, 1; Swt. 252, 19.
  • On ðæm síþmestan onwalde and on ðæm westemestan. Swt. 254, 2.
  • Ðis sindon ðæs landes gemǽra ðe gebyriaþ into ðære westmestan híde,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 262, 18.
  • On ðone westmestan mylengear . . . eft on ðæm westemestan mylengeare, Cod. Dip. B. ii. 305, 23-30. ¶ westan in combination with prepositions, governing dative or adverbial :-- Be-westan Hai

    ab oriente habeas Hai,

      Gen. 12, 8.
  • Ðám folcum ðe eardiaþ be-westan Sæferne

    eis populis qui ultra amnem Sabrinam ad occidentem habitant,

      Bd. 5, 23; S. 646, 21.
  • Be-westan Sealwuda,

      Chr. 894; Erl. 92, 19 : 709; Erl. 42, 28: Ors. 1, 1 ; Swt. 22, 7, 12, 26.
  • Ðonne heóld man fyrde be-westan (cf. wonyng fer by weste,

      Chauc. Prol. 388), Chr. 1010; Erl. 144, 5.
  • On-westan ðære cyrican

    ad occidentalem ecclesiae partem

    ,
      Bd. 3, 17; S. 543, 29.
  • Is on-westan medmycel duru,

      Blickl. Homl. 127, 8.
Etymology
[Icel. vestari; cpve. ; vestastr; spve. more, most westerly.]
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  • west, adj.