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Of or pertaining to the setting sun; falling; descending; western.

sed to orient. Specifically, in former times, Europe as opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere. Chaucer. I may wander from east to occident. Shak.

Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; -- opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.

Western Christians of the Latin rite. See Orientals. Shipley.

Western; occidental. [R.] Blount.

That which closes or shuts up. Sterne.

An American feline carnivore (Felis pardalis). It ranges from the Southwestern United States to Patagonia. It is covered with blackish ocellated spots and blotches, which are variously arranged. The ground color varies from reddish gray to tawny yellow.

uliarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like. That infinitude of oddities in him. Sterne.

A spring, surrounded by rushes or rank grass; an oasis. [Southwestern U.S.] Bartlett.

An umbelliferous plant, the common Alexanders of Western Europe (Smyrnium Olusatrum).

Opaque. [Obs.] Sterne.

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

Of or pertaining to the orient or east; eastern; concerned with the East or Orientalism; -- opposed to occidental; as, Oriental countries. The sun's ascendant and oriental radiations. Sir T. Browne.

An inhabitant of the Eastern parts of the world; an Oriental.

The quality or state of being oriental or eastern. Sir T. Browne.

f science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe.

Of or relating to the time or act of rising; eastern; as, the ortive amplitude of a planet.

One of the Eastern Goths. See Goth.

first known, lived on the Ottawa River. Most of them subsequently migrated to the southwestern shore of Lake Superior.

- applied to measurements. -- Out West, in or towards, the West; specifically, in some Western State or Territory. [U. S.] -- To come out, To cut out, To fall out, etc. See under Come, Cut, Fall, etc. -- To put out of the way, to kill; to destroy. -- Week in, week out. See Day in, day out (above).