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Definition of west

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West (a.) Lying toward the west; situated at the west, or in a western direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the west, or coming from the west; as, a west course is one toward the west; an east and west line; a west wind blows from the west..

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Plantation :: Plantation (n.) The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation..

Urania :: Urania (n.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies..

Abject :: Abject (n.) A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.

Baron :: Baron (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount..

Basso :: Basso (a.) The bass or lowest part; as, to sing basso..

Westy :: Westy (a.) Dizzy; giddy.

Drone :: Drone (v. i.) That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth..

Zephyr :: Zephyr (n.) The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze..

Proletary :: Proletary (n.) A citizen of the lowest class, who served the state, not with property, but only by having children; hence, a common person..

Czechs :: Czechs (n. pl.) The most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in Bohemia and Moravia..

Cupric :: Cupric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its lowest proportion..

Indies :: Indies (n. pl.) A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies..

Western :: Western (a.) Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze..

Topaz :: Topaz (n.) Either one of two species of large, brilliantly colored humming birds of the Topaza, of South America and the West Indies..

Jamaica :: Jamaica (n.) One of the West India is islands.

Fillet :: Fillet (n.) An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position..

Corporal :: Corporal (n.) A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels..

Arrowroot :: Arrowroot (n.) A west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. M. arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows..

Chippeways :: Chippeways (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and western shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways.

Departure :: Departure (n.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.