Windward

1. adv. Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows.
2. n. The point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply to the windward; — opposed to leeward.
3. a. Situated toward the point from which the wind blows; as, the Windward Islands.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.