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EUROCLYDON (Gr. eupos, east wind; KM)...

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 906 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUROCLYDON (Gr. eupos, See also:east See also:wind; KM)bwv, See also:wave)  , a stormy See also:wind from the N.E. or N.N.E. in the eastern Mediterranean . Where the Authorized Version of the See also:Bible (Acts See also:xxvii . 14) mentions See also:euroclydon, the Revised Version, taking the See also:reading evpasVXwv, has euraquilo, or See also:north-See also:easter . The word is sometimes used for the See also:Bora (q.v.) .

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