<B>Eastern, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of, in, or from the eastern part of the United States. <BR> <I>Ex. an Eastern Congressman.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or in the countries of Asia; Oriental. <DD><B> 3. </B>from or having to do with the former Soviet Union and its east European satellites. <DD><I>noun </I> a member of the Eastern Church. </DL>
<B>eastern cottontail,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the variety of cottontail (rabbit) common throughout the eastern United States and Mexico. </DL>
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<B>eastern diamondback rattlesnake,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings, found from Louisiana to North Carolina. </DL>
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<B>Eastern Empire,</B> =Eastern Roman Empire.</DL>
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<B>easterner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person born or living in the east. </DL>
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<B>Easterner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person born or living in the eastern part of the United States. </DL>
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<B>Eastern Hemisphere,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the half of the world that includes Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. </DL>
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<B>eastern hemlock,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a medium to large hemlock of the eastern United States and Canada whose bark is an important source of tannin for the leather industry. </DL>
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<B>easternize</B> or <B>Easternize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make eastern or Eastern in character, ideas, ways, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. Would the Japanese be easternized if an Eastern country were top dog? (Maclean's).</I> </DL>
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<B>eastern kingbird,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large North American flycatcher with slaty-black upper parts, white underparts, and an inconspicuous red patch on the crown; bee martin. </DL>
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<B>eastern larch,</B> =tamarack.</DL>
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<B>eastern mole,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, silvery or grayish mole with naked tail and broad front feet, found especially about lawns and gardens of the central and eastern United States. </DL>
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<B>easternmost, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> farthest east. <BR> <I>Ex. Far from neutral in the cold war, Austria [was] really the easternmost outpost of the Free World (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>Eastern Orthodox,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the Eastern Orthodox Churches. </DL>
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<B>Eastern Orthodox Churches,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of Christian churches chiefly in eastern Europe, western Asia, and in Africa, most of which consider the patriarch of Constantinople as titular head of the church; Eastern Church; Orthodox Church. </DL>
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<B>eastern pipistrel,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a very small, brownish bat of the eastern United States and Mexico. </DL>
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<B>Eastern Question,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the problems and complications in the international politics of Europe relating to the Near East. </DL>
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<B>Eastern Rite,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the church ceremonies and customs of the Eastern Orthodox Churches. <BR> <I>Ex. Churches in the Eastern Rite have always maintained a married priesthood (Maclean's).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=Eastern Orthodox Churches.</B> </DL>
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<B>eastern roll,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a style of high jump in which the jumper clears the crossbar in a vertical position. </DL>
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<B>Eastern Roman Empire,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the eastern part of the Roman Empire after its division in A.D. 395; Byzantine Empire. The Eastern Roman Empire ended with the capture of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453. </DL>
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<B>Eastern Standard Time</B> or <B>Eastern Time,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the standard time in the eastern part of the United States and most of eastern Canada, a belt centered on the 75th meridian and extending 7 degrees 30 minutes, approximately, on each side of it. Eastern Standard Time is five hours behind Greenwich Time. (Abbr:) EST (no periods). </DL>
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<B>eastern tent caterpillar,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a black tent caterpillar, with blue spots and a yellow stripe on the back, that lives in fruit and shade trees in eastern and central North America. </DL>
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<B>eastern willet,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a willet that breeds along the Atlantic Coast between Virginia and the Bahama Islands, and migrates in winter as far south as Peru. </DL>
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<B>Easter Sunday,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the Sunday on which Easter is celebrated. </DL>
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<B>Eastertide, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the week beginning with Easter Sunday; Easter week. <DD><B> 2. </B>the fifty days from Easter to Whitsuntide, the forty days to Ascension Day, or the fifty-seven days to Trinity Sunday. </DL>
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<B>Easter time,</B> =Eastertide.</DL>
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<B>Easter week,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Easter Sunday and the week following. </DL>
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<B>East German,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with former East Germany. <DD><B> 2. </B>a native or inhabitant of former East Germany. </DL>
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<B>East Germanic,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an extinct division of Germanic which included Gothic. </DL>
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<B>East India Company, The,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a British joint-stock company chartered in 1600 to trade with the East Indies. In the 1700's its conquests led to the organization of British India, and for a time it exercised sovereignty jointly with the crown. Its noncommercial functions were relinquished in 1858. <DD><B> 2. </B>the name of similar companies chartered in Denmark, Sweden, France, and Holland. </DL>
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<B>East Indiaman,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a strong, roomy, full-rigged ship used as a cargo carrier in the trade with the East Indies in the 1700's and 1800's. </DL>
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<B>East Indian,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with the East Indies or its people. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person born or living in the East Indies. </DL>
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<B>easting, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the distance due east made by a ship. <DD><B> 2. </B>distance eastward. <DD><B> 3. </B>easterly departure. <DD><B> 4. </B>a shifting eastward from a course. <DD><B> 5. </B>easterly direction. </DL>
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<B>east-northeast, </B>noun, adverb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the point of the compass or the direction midway between east and northeast, two points or 22 degrees 30 minutes to the north of east. <DD><I>adv., adj. </I> 22 degrees 30' to the north of east. (Abbr:) ENE (no periods). </DL>
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<B>east-southeast, </B>noun, adverb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the point of the compass or the direction midway between east and southeast, two points or 22 degrees 30 minutes to the south of east. <DD><I>adv., adj. </I> 22 degrees 30' to the south of east. (Abbr:) ESE (no periods). </DL>
<A NAME="eastward">
<B>eastward, </B>adverb, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adv., adj. </I> toward the east; east. <BR> <I>Ex. He walked eastward (adv.). The orchard is on the eastward slope of the hill (adj.).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> an eastward part, direction, or point. </DL>
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<B>eastwardly, </B>adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>toward the east. <DD><B> 2. </B>from the east. <BR> <I>Ex. an eastwardly wind.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="eastwards">
<B>eastwards, </B>adverb. =eastward.</DL>
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<B>East-West, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> between the East and the West. <BR> <I>Ex. East-West cooperation.</I> </DL>
