easterly

& adv. [Eng.east; -er; -ly.] IMG:content-0729.png:[blocks in formation] "These give us a view of the most easterly , southerly, and westerly parts of England."- Graunt : Bills of Mor tality . 2. Moving or directed toward the east: as, an easterly current, to move in an easterly direction. 3. Looking toward the east. "Water he chuses clear, light, without taste or smell, emancipated Christians shall shake off Ru ian influence, and, prizing their personal independence, maintain it, if need be, against the great Northern power, and so conduct themselves as to encourage the Great Powers to transfer Constantinople to their keeping if the domination of the Turks in the latter capital should come to an end. The con ser vat i ver party, on the contrary, estimate the long oppre ed Christians of the Ottoman Empire le , and the Turks more highly than their political rivals, and are prepared to defend, and, if need be, repeat the policy of the Crime an war. Acute crises in the Eastern Question tend to recur in nearly buthnot. 4. Coming from the east, or parts lying toward the east. "When the easterly winds or breezes are kept off by some high mountains from the valleys, whereby the air, wanting motion, doth become exceedingly unhealthful." -Raleigh : Hist. of the World. B. As adverb: 1. Toward or in the direction of the east. 2. Coming from the east; in the east. "The winter winds still easterly do keep." Drayton: On his Lady not coming to London. ēas'-tern, *eas-terne, a . [A. S. eásterne .] 1. Situated or lying in the east; oriental. 2. Lying or being toward the east; easterly. "The eastern end of the isle rises up in precipices." Add is on. 3. Going eastward or in the direction of the east. "A ship at sea has no certain method in either her east ern or western voyages, or even in her le distant sailings from the coasts, to know her longitude."- Add is on . 4. Looking toward the east. IMG:content-0730.png:[blocks in formation] Hist.: The Empire which had its metropolis at Constantinople, as distinguished from the Western one which had its capital a Rome. The name did not begin with the building of Constantinople; it arose when, in A. D. 394, Val ent in i an, himself ruling at the capital just mentioned, made his brother Valens Emperor of the West. It came still more into use when the final separation between the East and the West took place in A. D. 395. The Eastern Empire is held to have continued till. A. D. 1453, when its chief city was captured by the Turks and became the Turkish capital. It is sometimes called the Lower Empire, implying that it was later in time than its more celebrated predece or, to which, however, the name Higher is not applied. Ru o-Turkish war of 1828-29 and that of 1853-55, was twenty-three years; that between 1855 and the war of 1877-78 was twenty-one. Eastern Star, Order of the, s. A secret society composed exclusively of Freemasons in good standing, and their wives, mothers, sisters and daughters, and the widows of Freemasons. This order originated in the City of New York in 1868, and rapidly extended over the country. In 189s it had attained a membership of 64,000, embracing 24 grand chapters and 1,300 subordinate chapters. Its rites and services are conducted with all the impre ive secrecy peculiar to Freemasonry. A five-pointed star, between whose points the word "Fatal" is inscribed, is the badge of the order. Members attain to degrees, and certain regalia is a requirement. [WIMODAUSIS.]