Westerly - Definition

adv 1: toward the west; "we began to steer away westerly"-
Daniel Defoe
2: from the west; "the wind blew westerly" [ant: easterly]
adj 1: of wind; from the west [syn: westerly, western]
2: moving toward the west; "westbound pioneers" [syn:
westbound, westerly, westward]
n 1: the winds from the west that occur in the temperate zones
of the Earth [syn: prevailing westerly, westerly]