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e point of the compass equally distant from the south and the east; the southeast part or region.

The southern regions or countries; the south. Sir W. Raleigh.

The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.

, have their maximum influence at and beyond the violet rays, but are not limited to this region. -- Chromatic spectrum, the visible colored rays of the solar spectrum, exhibiting the seven principal colors in their order, and covering the central and larger portion of the space of the whole spectrum. -- Continous sp…

Of or pertaining to both the sphenoidal and the ethmoidal regions of the skull, or the sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal. Sphenethmoid bone (Anat.), a bone of the skull which surrounds the anterior end of the brain in many amphibia; the girdle bone.

e. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India.

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral.

Pain over the region of the spleen.

Nettle. -- Spurge olive, an evergreen shrub (Daphne oleoides) found in the Mediterranean region.

blished; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government. In this region of chance, . . . where nothing is stable. Rogers.

A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.

Full of stars; starry; as, stellar regions.

Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum. Sternal ribs. See the Note under Rib, n., 1.

ic line (Mil.), a line joining strategic points. -- Strategic point (Mil.), any point or region in the theater or warlike operations which affords to its possessor an advantage over his opponent, as a mountain pass, a junction of rivers or roads, a fortress, etc.

Destitute of streams, or of a stream, as a region of country, or a dry channel.

The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.

Approximately arctic; belonging to a region just without the arctic circle.

To raise on high. [Archaic] A soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit. E. P. Whipple.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lumbar region of the vertebral column.

art of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris. "In the suburbs of a town." Chaucer. [London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or…