ORIENT

a. n. v.

8 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Rising, as the sun. Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun. Milton.

2.
a.

Eastern; oriental. "The orient part." Hakluyt.

3.
a.

Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; -- used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East. "Pearls round and orient." Jer. Taylor. "Orient gems." Wordsworth. "Orient liquor in a crystal glass." Milton.

4.
n.

The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east. [Morn] came furrowing all the orient into gold. Tennyson.

5.
n.

The countries of Asia or the East. Chaucer. Best built city throughout the Orient. Sir T. Herbert.

6.
n.

A pearl of great luster. [R.] Carlyle.

7.
v.

To define the position of, in relation to the orient or east; hence, to ascertain the bearings of.

8.
v.

Fig.: To correct or set right by recurring to first principles; to arrange in order; to orientate.

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