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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Mestee ::
Mestee (n.) The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies.
Southwesterly ::
Southwesterly (a.) To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind..
Zephyrus ::
Zephyrus (n.) The west wind, or zephyr; -- usually personified, and made the most mild and gentle of all the sylvan deities..
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..
Ensign ::
Ensign (n.) A commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army..
Topaz ::
Topaz (n.) Either one of two species of large, brilliantly colored humming birds of the Topaza, of South America and the West Indies..
Gourd Tree ::
Gourd tree () A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America..
Senna ::
Senna (n.) The plants themselves, native to the East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies..
Manilla ::
Manilla (n.) A piece of copper of the shape of a horseshoe, used as money by certain tribes of the west coast of Africa..
Amplitude ::
Amplitude (n.) The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator..
Ottawas ::
Ottawas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who, when first known, lived on the Ottawa River. Most of them subsequently migrated to the southwestern shore of Lake Superior..
Emigration ::
Emigration (n.) The act of emigrating; removal from one country or state to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western..
Muskwood ::
Muskwood (n.) The wood of a West Indian tree of the Mahogany family (Moschoxylum Swartzii).
Protosulphide ::
Protosulphide (n.) That one of a series of sulphides of any element which has the lowest proportion of sulphur; a sulphide with but one atom of sulphur in the molecule.
Coyote ::
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..
Chouan ::
Chouan (n.) One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution..
Golf ::
Golf (n.) A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.
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