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- Eastern - a. - Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries.
- Eastern - a. - Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage.
- Easternmost - a. - Most eastern.
- Prothesis - n. - A credence table; -- so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.
- Ecclesiarch - n. - An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.
- Lambert pine - - The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
- Valonia - n. - The acorn cup of two kinds of oak (Quercus macrolepis, and Q. vallonea) found in Eastern Europe. It contains abundance of tannin, and is much used by tanners and dyers.
- Grisons - n. pl. - Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps.
- Apse - n. - A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy.
- Burgundy - n. - An old province of France (in the eastern central part).
- Etesian - a. - Periodical; annual; -- applied to winds which annually blow from the north over the Mediterranean, esp. the eastern part, for an irregular period during July and August.
- Quercitron - n. - The yellow inner bark of the Quercus tinctoria, the American black oak, yellow oak, dyer's oak, or quercitron oak, a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern Texas.
- Ostrogoth - n. - One of the Eastern Goths. See Goth.
- Bluestone - n. - A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States.
- Shah - n. - The title of the supreme ruler in certain Eastern countries, especially Persia.
- Hackberry - n. - A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States.
- Levant - n. - The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
- Sunfish - n. - Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (L. auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish.
- Pineweed - n. - A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.
- Ban - n. - An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.
- Grasshopper - n. - Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi. In the Eastern United States the red-legged (Caloptenus femurrubrum and C. atlanis) are closely related species, but their ravages are less important. They are closely related to the migratory locusts of the Old World. See Locust.
- Sea trout - - Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout.
- Sora - n. - A North American rail (Porzana Carolina) common in the Eastern United States. Its back is golden brown, varied with black and white, the front of the head and throat black, the breast and sides of the head and neck slate-colored. Called also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and orto.
- Wends - n. pl. - A Slavic tribe which once occupied the northern and eastern parts of Germany, of which a small remnant exists.
- Orientalist - n. - An inhabitant of the Eastern parts of the world; an Oriental.
- Mahori - n. - One of the dark race inhabiting principally the islands of Eastern Polynesia. Also used adjectively.
- Oriental - n. - A native or inhabitant of the Orient or some Eastern part of the world; an Asiatic.
- Vampire - n. - A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.
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- H2341 חֲוִילָה - 2341 חֲוִילָה - חֲוִילָה - - Chăvîylâh - khav-ee-law' - probably from חוּל; circular; Chavilah, the name of two or three eastern regions; also perhaps of two men; Havilah. - - x-pn
- H6539 פָּרַס - 6539 פָּרַס - פָּרַס - - Pâraç - paw-ras' - of foreign origin; Paras (i.e. Persia), an Eastern country, including its inhabitants; Persia, Persians. - Proper Name - x-pn
- H6540 פָּרַס - 6540 פָּרַס - פָּרַס - - Pâraç - paw-ras' - (Aramaic) corresponding to פָּרַס; {Paras (i.e. Persia), an Eastern country, including its inhabitants}; Persia, Persians. - Proper Name - arc
- H6930 קַדְמוֹן - 6930 קַדְמוֹן - קַדְמוֹן - - qadmôwn - kad-mone' - from קָדַם; eastern; east. - Adjective - heb
- H6932 קְדֵמוֹת - 6932 קְדֵמוֹת - קְדֵמוֹת - - Qᵉdêmôwth - ked-ay-mothe' - from קָדַם; beginnings; Kedemoth, a place in eastern Palestine; Kedemoth. - Proper Name Location - x-pn