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west⋅ward

[west-werd]
–adjective
1. moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the west: a westward migration of farm workers.
–adverb
2. Also, westwards. toward the west; west: a train moving westward.
–noun
3. the westward part, direction, or point: The wind had veered to the westward.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE westweard. See west, -ward
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west·ward   (wěst'wərd)   
adv.   & adj.
Toward, to, or in the west.
n.  A westward direction, point, or region.
west'ward·ly adv. & adj., west'wards adv.
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Westward

sea-ward, i.e., toward the Mediterranean (Deut. 3:27).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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