orient

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

O'RIENT, adjective [Latin oriens, from orior, to arise.] 1. Rising, as the sun. - Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun. The orient morn. 2. Eastern; oriental. 3. Bright; shining; glittering; as orient pearls. O'RIENT, noun The east; the part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning.
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