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The day on which the festival is observed; Easter day.

The common white lily (Lilium candidum), called also Annunciation lily.

or others from the coasts of the Baltic. Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us. Holinshed.

Coming from the east; as, it was easterly wind.

Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries. Eastern churches first did Christ embrace. Stirling.

hat portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church. It became estranged from the Western, or Roman, Church over the…

Most eastern.

One who fares deliciously.

A storm, strong wind, or gale, coming from the northeast.

Pertaining to the northeast; toward the northeast, or coming from the northeast.

Of or pertaining to the northeast; northeasterly.

The wild olive tree (Olea Europea, var. sylvestris).

See Pinaster.

A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.

Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.

Delivery, in speech. [Obs.] B. Jonson. Absolution day (R. C. Ch.), Tuesday before Easter.

magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.

The first Sunday after Easter Sunday, properly Albless Sunday, because in the early church those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.

on of the Transition zone extending across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.