Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (2)
1.
at once;
- Example: "straightway the clouds began to scatter"2.
in a direct course;
- Example: "plunged straightway to the rocks below"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Straightway \Straight"way`\, adv.
Immediately; without loss of time; without delay.
[1913 Webster]
He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her,
Talitha cumi. . . . And straightway the damsel arose.
--Mark v.
41,42.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
straightway
adv 1: at once; "straightway the clouds began to scatter"
2: in a direct course; "plunged straightway to the rocks below"