
Noah Webster
Orient
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.