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Definition of Easterly

1. Adverb. From the east. "The winds blew easterly all night"

2. Adjective. Lying in or toward the east. "Eastern cities"

3. Noun. A wind from the east.

4. Adjective. From the east; used especially of winds. "The winds are easterly"

Definition of Easterly

1. a. Coming from the east; as, it was easterly wind.

2. adv. Toward, or in the direction of, the east.

Definition of Easterly

1. Noun. (meteorology) Any persistent wind from the east (usually applied to broad currents or belts of easterly winds). ¹

2. Adjective. Facing the east; directed towards the east. ¹

3. Adjective. Located towards the east. ¹

4. Adjective. Coming from the east. ¹

5. Adverb. In an eastward direction or position; towards the east. ¹

6. Adverb. From the east. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Easterly

1. a wind from the east [n -LIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Easterly

east African cedar east by north east by northeast east by south east northeast east side east southeast east wind eastbound easted

easter easter proteinase easterlies easterliness easterling easterly (current term) eastermost eastern eastern United States eastern chimpanzee

eastern chinquapin eastern chipmunk eastern coral snake eastern cottontail eastern cricket frog eastern dasyure eastern equine encephalomyelitis eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus eastern fence lizard eastern flowering dogwood

Literary usage of Easterly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by California Legislature. Assembly, California, United States Congress Senate, Legislature (1912)
"All of that portion of the county of Alameda described as follows, to wit: Beginning at a point where the easterly boundary line of the town of Emeryville ..."

2. Collections by CT Historical Society (1908)
"[A duplicate of this warrant was given "To Mr Willm Mur- dough Constable for the easterly side of Beaver Brook," and recorded on page 158, Vol. ..."

3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"It thence continues to hold a course generally easterly for about 190 miles, ... continues to flow in a south-easterly direction for 60 miles, and in lat. ..."

4. Journal by Detroit (Mich.). City Council, Prince Edward Island. Legislative Council (1901)
"Also, the easterly ten (10) f lot six (6) of the subdivision last mentioned. ... Also, the easterly ten (10) feet of the northerly one hundred and sixty- ..."

5. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Lands lying easterly from Lahor with their Lords. ... This Raja confines the Kings Land easterly. Bordering to him is another great ..."

6. The Revised Statutes, Codes and General Laws of the State of New York by New York (State), Clarence Frank Birdseye (1905)
"... thence northerly along the west line of township twelve to the northwest corner of lot one in the south half of said township; thence easterly along the ..."

7. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa by Heinrich Barth (1890)
"GREAT SOUTH-SOUTH-easterly REACH. AT length, in the course of the 8th, my protector returned from his herd of camels, or, as the Arabs call it, ..."

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