Definition of west

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West (n.) Formerly, that part of the United States west of the Alleghany mountains; now, commonly, the whole region west of the Mississippi river; esp., that part which is north of the Indian Territory, New Mexico, etc. Usually with the definite article..

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Bitterwood :: Bitterwood (n.) A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
West :: West (n.) A country, or region of country, which, with regard to some other country or region, is situated in the direction toward the west..
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, b
Sassy Bark :: Sassy bark () The bark of a West African leguminous tree (Erythrophlaeum Guineense, used by the natives as an ordeal poison, and also medicinally; -- called also mancona bark..
Horseman :: Horseman (n.) A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus)..
Shipment :: Shipment (n.) The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West..
Ano :: Ano (n.) A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting..
Alabama Period :: Alabama period () A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic..
Topaz :: Topaz (n.) Either one of two species of large, brilliantly colored humming birds of the Topaza, of South America and the West Indies..
Cowboy :: Cowboy (n.) A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States..
Western :: Western (a.) Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze..
Wealden :: Wealden (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceous formation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the Oolitic series..
Westerner :: Westerner (n.) A native or inhabitant of the west.
Frangipanni :: Frangipanni (n.) A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria..
Runner :: Runner (n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water..
Ashantee :: Ashantee (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Ashantee in Western Africa.
Emigration :: Emigration (n.) The act of emigrating; removal from one country or state to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western..
Rossel Current :: Rossel current () A portion of the southern equatorial current flowing westward from the Fiji Islands to New Guinea.
Taconic :: Taconic (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming the Taconic mountains in Western New England. They were once supposed to be older than the Cambrian, but later proved to belong to the Lower Silurian and Cambrian..
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