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Definition of west

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West (n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east..

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Southwestern :: Southwestern (a.) Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwesterly; as, to sail a southwestern course..

Occasive :: Occasive (a.) Of or pertaining to the setting sun; falling; descending; western.

Gnome :: Gnome (n.) A small owl (Glaucidium gnoma) of the Western United States.

Redwithe :: Redwithe (n.) A west Indian climbing shrub (Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets.

Glut :: Glut (n.) The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc..

Pawn :: Pawn (n.) A man or piece of the lowest rank.

Superlative :: Superlative (a.) Expressing the highest or lowest degree of the quality, manner, etc., denoted by an adjective or an adverb. The superlative degree is formed from the positive by the use of -est, most, or least; as, highest, most pleasant, least bright..

Pinkroot :: Pinkroot (n.) An annual South American and West Indian plant (Spigelia Anthelmia).

West :: West (n.) The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident..

Galliwasp :: Galliwasp (n.) A West Indian lizard (Celestus occiduus), about a foot long, imagined by the natives to be venomous..

Troupial :: Troupial (n.) Any one of numerous species of bright-colored American birds belonging to Icterus and allied genera, especially Icterus icterus, a native of the West Indies and South America. Many of the species are called orioles in America..

Stoppered :: Stopper (n.) A name to several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies; as, the red stopper. See Eugenia..

Raft :: Raft (n.) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. (such as is formed in some Western rivers of the United States), which obstructs navigation..

Person :: Person (n.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals..

Westing :: Westing (n.) The distance, reckoned toward the west, between the two meridians passing through the extremities of a course, or portion of a ship's path; the departure of a course which lies to the west of north..

Foresail :: Foresail (n.) The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast..

Hesperides :: 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..

Northwards :: Northwards (adv.) Toward the north, or toward a point nearer to the north than to the east or west point..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West..

Crossjack :: Crossjack (n.) The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast..