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Of or pertaining to Nubia in Eastern Africa. -- n.

A carnivorous mannual (Helictis moscatus, or H. orientalis), native of Eastern Asia and the Indies. It has a dorsal white stripe, and another one across the shoulders. It has a strong musky odor.

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.

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.

Of or pertaining to the Eastern hemisphere. [Written also palæogæan.]

.), a yellow-flowered leguminous herb (Cassia Chamæcrista), common in sandy fields in the Eastern United States. -- Partridge shell (Zoöl.), a large marine univalve shell (Dolium perdix), having colors variegated like those of the partridge. -- Partridge wood (a) A variegated wood, much esteemed for cabinetwork. It i…

A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts.

Of or pertaining to Pelusium, an ancient city of Egypt; as, the Pelusiac (or former eastern) outlet of the Nile.

A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited Eastern Connecticut. [Written also Pequods.]

A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.

Low, wooded grounds or swamps in Eastern Maryland and Virginia. [Written also poquoson.] Washington.

A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback.

Of or pertaining to Polynesia (the islands of the eastern and central Pacific), or to the Polynesians.

The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born. Sir T. Palgrave.

heological term applied to the relation of the Holy Spirit to the Father and the Son, the Eastern Church affirming that the Spirit proceeds from the Father only, and the Western Church that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. Shipley. -- Procession week, a name for Rogation week, when processions were mad…

A credence table; -- so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.