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