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

To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward.

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.

The Easter festival. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

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

The Sunday next before Easter; -- so called in commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.

See Pasch and Easter.

.), 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…

The passover; the feast of Easter. Pasch egg. See Easter egg, under Easter. -- Pasch flower. See Pasque flower, under Pasque.

Of or pertaining to the passover, or to Easter; as, a paschal lamb; paschal eggs. Longfellow. Paschal candle (R. C. Ch.), a large wax candle, blessed and placed on the altar on Holy Saturday, or the day before Easter. -- Paschal flower. See Pasque flower, under Pasque.

rennial herbs with rather large purplish blossoms, which appear in early spring, or about Easter, whence the common name. Called also campana.

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.