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ˈeast ˈwind, ˈeast-ˈwind
[OE. éastanwind: see east A. 1.]
a. The wind blowing from the east. In England and in New England proverbially bleak, unpleasant, and injurious to health; hence often fig. In quots. from or allusions to the Bible the fig. sense refers to the scorching and destructive east wind of Palestine. Hence east-winded adj.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 143 Subsolanus, eastenwind. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xi. iii. (1495) 386 The Este wynde that hight Subsolanus. 1483Cath. Angl. 118 Þe Estewynde, eurus. 1535Coverdale Ezek. xvii. 10 Withered..as soone as y⊇ east wynde bloweth. 1649R. Hodges Plain. Direct. 4 An East-winde may spoil a nest of yong birds. 1722De Foe Plague 262 It was to no more purpose to talk to them than to an East-wind. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 75 The east wind in Palestine..is parching, scorching, destructive to vegetation, oppressive to man. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 53 [A nature] so steeped..in sunshine that the east winds (physical or intellectual) of Boston..assailed it in vain.
1873Miss Thackeray Old Kensington ii. 9 One bitter east-winded morning.
b. In the game of mah jong the name given to one of the four tiles called winds, and to a disc representing this tile; hence, the player drawing this disc, who is the first to play.
1922R. E. Lindsell Ma-cheuk 9 Four players make up a table, and seats are usually determined by chance, the four discs (‘East’, ‘South’, ‘West’, and ‘North’) being placed face-down on the table and each player drawing one in turn. The player who draws ‘East’ has choice of seats. Ibid. 25 In the East round, South has originally one East wind. 1923Daily Mail 3 Mar. 7 Why ‘East Wind’ should have played his ‘Red Dragon’. 1924Mah Jong Rules of Queen's Club 9 ‘Jong’ is always East Wind, the player on his right South. 1960R. C. Bell Board & Table Games vi. 152 The tiles are grouped into..The East, South, West, and North Winds. Ibid. 153 The person drawing East Wind takes the seat in front of the tong and drops his disc into it. Ibid. 156 The first round is East Wind's, and continues until each player in turn has been East. |