EAST
, one of the cardinal points of the horizon, or of the compass, being the middle point of it between north and south, on that side where the sun rises, or the point in which it is intersected on that side by the prime vertical.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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