Euroclydon /(?)/

Eu·roc·ly·don

Euroclydon

n.

[NL., fr. Gr. ; the southeast wind + wave, billow; according to another reading, , i. e. a north-east wind, as in the Latin Vulgate Euro-aquilo.]

A tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the Mediterranean. See Levanter.
A tempestuous wind called Euroclydon.
— Acts xxvii. 14.

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