Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for East
east, adv. [see east, n.] (webplay: hand).
- In the direction; coming from the place; coming from the compass direction.
- Phrase. “A little East of Jordan”: somewhere in Canaan; at a place in the land that the Lord promised to Jacob in the Bible (see Genesis 32:24-30).
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