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On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer. Story.

A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern. Branchial clefts. See under Branchial.

sition; to guard; to overlook. Bridges commanded by a fortified house. Motley. Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale. Shak. One side commands a view of the finest garden. Addison.

erstanding between the chief European powers to take only joint action in the (European) Eastern Question.

United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.

The small pastern bone of the horse and allied animals.

ainst; to denounce; to condemn. [Obs.] The heresy of Nestorius . . . was detested in the Eastern churches. Fuller. God hath detested them with his own mouth. Bale.

Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general. "The regal diadem." Milton.

To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east. We drifted o'er the harbor bar. Coleridge.

he sun their waved coats dropped with gold. Milton. To drop a vessel (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it.

The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East. The gorgeous East, with richest…

Relating to the Eastern Islands; East Indian. [R.] Ogilvie.

An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.

To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.

A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint.

-- applied to winds which annually blow from the north over the Mediterranean, esp. the eastern part, for an irregular period during July and August.

A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.

with another. -- To fall among, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. -- To fall astern (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. -- To fall away. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To r…

rocess by the officer to whom it was delivered for execution. -- False ribs (Anat.), the asternal rebs, of which there are five pairs in man. -- False roof (Arch.), the space between the upper ceiling and the roof. Oxford Gloss. -- False token, a false mark or other symbol, used for fraudulent purposes. -- False sc…

ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion. Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves. Dryden.