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- Western - a. - Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean.
- Western - a. - Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze.
- Westerner - n. - A native or inhabitant of the west.
- Westernmost - a. - Situated the farthest towards the west; most western.
- Sego - n. - A liliaceous plant (Calochortus Nuttallii) of Western North America, and its edible bulb; -- so called by the Ute Indians and the Mormons.
- Hesperian - n. - A native or an inhabitant of a western country.
- Neogaean - a. - Of or pertaining to the New World, or Western Hemisphere.
- Score - n. - To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.
- Astacus - n. - A genus of crustaceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish.
- Chouan - n. - One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.
- Orography - n. - That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe.
- Tucan - n. - The Mexican pocket gopher (Geomys Mexicanus). It resembles the common pocket gopher of the Western United States, but is larger. Called also tugan, and tuza.
- Nutcracker - n. - The American, or Clarke's, nutcracker (Picicorvus Columbianus) of Western North America.
- Savine - n. - A coniferous shrub (Juniperus Sabina) of Western Asia, occasionally found also in the northern parts of the United States and in British America. It is a compact bush, with dark-colored foliage, and produces small berries having a glaucous bloom. Its bitter, acrid tops are sometimes used in medicine for gout, amenorrhoea, etc.
- Hesperides - n. pl. - The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides.
- Doublet - a. - A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century.
- Reindeer - n. - Any ruminant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.
- Angola pea - - A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.
- Gothic - a. - Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust. of Abacus, and Capital.
- Westward - n. - The western region or countries; the west.
- Wych-elm - n. - A species of elm (Ulmus montana) found in Northern and Western Europe; Scotch elm.
- Micronesian - a. - Of or pertaining to Micronesia, a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, embracing the Marshall and Gilbert groups, the Ladrones, the Carolines, etc.
- Sucker - n. - Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.
- Steppe - n. - One of the vast plains in Southeastern Europe and in Asia, generally elevated, and free from wood, analogous to many of the prairies in Western North America. See Savanna.
- Coyote - n. - A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.
- Ashantee - n. - A native or an inhabitant of Ashantee in Western Africa.
- Occident - n. - The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west; -- opposed to orient. Specifically, in former times, Europe as opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere.
- Wenona - n. - A sand snake (Charina plumbea) of Western North America, of the family Erycidae.
- After-glow - n. - A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset.
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- H314 אַחֲרוֹן - 314 אַחֲרוֹן - אַחֲרוֹן - - ʼachărôwn - akh-ar-one' - or (shortened) אַחֲרֹן; from אָחַר; hinder; generally, late or last; specifically (as facing the east) western; after (-ward), to come, following, hind(-er, -ermost, -most), last, latter, rereward, ut(ter) most. - Adjective - heb
- G773 Ἀσία - 773 Ἀσία - ἈΣΊΑ - - Asía - as-ee'-ah - of uncertain derivation; Asia, i.e. Asia Minor, or (usually) only its western shore:--Asia. - Noun Location - greek
- G1424 δυσμή - 1424 δυσμή - ΔΥΣΜΉ - - dysmḗ - doos-may' - from δύνω; the sun-set, i.e. (by implication) the western region:--west. - Noun Feminine - greek
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