West Virgin i an (west ver jin i an)

and n. I. a. Of or pertaining to West Virginia, one of the United States, set apart from Virginia during the civil war, and admitted to the Union in 1863. II. n. A native or an inhabitant of West Virginia. westward (west'wärd), adv. [ ward ; west we ard , we stew eard , westward, west , west, + -weard , E. -ward .] 1. Toward the west; in a westerly direction: as, to ride or sail westward . Westward the course of empire takes its way. Bp . Berkeley , Arts and Learning in America. westward 2. Toward the ecclesiastical west. See west. Ma is celebrated by the priest standing behind the altar with his face westward. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 105. Westward ho!!to the west: an old cry of London watermen on the Thames in hailing pa engers bound westward, taken as the title of a play by Dekker and Webster and of a novel by Charles Kingsley. Oli . There lies your way, due west. Vio. Then westward-ho! Shak ., T. N., iii. 1. 146.