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Definition of Due west
1. Noun. The cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Due West
Literary usage of Due west
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1879)
"... two hundred and eighty miles, eighteen chains and twenty-one links due west
from the place of beginning; and two hundred and forty-four miles, ..."
2. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties by United States, Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"... thence due south 6 miles; thence due west to the one hundred and tenth degree
of west longitude; thence north along said degree to the southwest corner ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1897)
"Then it runs due west to the New Hope-Centre Point road, where it turns a little
north of west to the Muddy Fork. Here the structure is anticlinal. ..."
4. History of Dakota Territory by George Washington Kingsbury (1915)
"72; thence south on said township western line to an intersecting line running
due west from Fort Lookout ; thence eastwardly on said line to the center of ..."
5. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1904)
"The Serpent, Serpens, held by him is seen curving upward toward the Crown, Corona
Borealis. The Serpent's head is due west, and above it we see the bright ..."
6. History of Maryland from the Earliest Period to the Present Day ...: From by John Thomas Scharf (1879)
"... two hundred and eighty miles, eighteen chains and twenty-one links due west
from the place of beginning; and two hundred and forty-four miles, ..."
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