woeste

adv. [ AS. west. ] Westward. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To pass to the west; to set, as the sun. [ Obs. ] “The hot sun gan to west.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To turn or move toward the west; to veer from the north or south toward the west. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Lying toward the west; situated at the west, or in a western direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the west, or coming from the west; as, a west course is one toward the west; an east and west line; a west wind blows from the west. [ 1913 Webster ]

This shall be your west border. Num. xxxiv. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) Designating, or situated in, that part of a church which is opposite to, and farthest from, the east, or the part containing the chancel and choir. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

West end, the fashionable part of London, commencing from the east, at Charing Cross. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Passing to the west. [ 1913 Webster ]

Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the west; toward the west; coming from the west; western. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Toward the west; westward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean. [ 1913 Webster ]

Far o'er the glowing western main. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze. [ 1913 Webster ]

Western Church. See Latin Church, under Latin. --
Western empire (Hist.), the western portion of the Roman empire, as divided, by the will of Theodosius the Great, between his sons Honorius and Arcadius, a. d. 395. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A native or inhabitant of the west. [ 1913 Webster ]