Definition of west

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West (v. i.) To turn or move toward the west; to veer from the north or south toward the west.

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Whip-tom-kelly :: Whip-tom-kelly (n.) A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native of the West Indies and Florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo.
Korrigum :: Korrigum (n.) A West African antelope (Damalis Senegalensis), allied to the sassaby. It is reddish gray, with a black face, and a black stripe on the outside of the legs above the knees..
Olusatrum :: Olusatrum (n.) An umbelliferous plant, the common Alexanders of Western Europe (Smyrnium Olusatrum)..
Rank :: Rank (n. & v.) An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings..
Companion :: Companion (n.) A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath..
A :: A () The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (/) of the Phoenician alphabet, the equivalent of the Hebrew Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural
Topaz :: Topaz (n.) Either one of two species of large, brilliantly colored humming birds of the Topaza, of South America and the West Indies..
Lansquenet :: Lansquenet (n.) A German foot soldier in foreign service in the 15th and 16th centuries; a soldier of fortune; -- a term used in France and Western Europe.
Canella :: Canella (n.) A genus of trees of the order Canellaceae, growing in the West Indies..
Westward :: Westward (n.) The western region or countries; the west.
Northwesterly :: Northwesterly (a.) Toward the northwest, or from the northwest..
Occident :: Occident (n.) The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west; -- opposed to orient. Specifically, in former times, Europe as opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere..
Lowermost :: Lowermost (superl.) Lowest.
Westward :: Westward (a.) Lying toward the west.
Catadromous :: Catadromous (a.) Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous..
Grama Grass :: Grama grass () The name of several kinds of pasture grasses found in the Western United States, esp. the Bouteloua oligostachya..
Galapee Tree :: Galapee tree () The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves..
Acrania :: Acrania (n.) The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists..
Last :: Last (a.) Lowest in rank or degree; as, the last prize..
Poor-will :: Poor-will (n.) A bird of the Western United States (Phalaenoptilus Nutalli) allied to the whip-poor-will.
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