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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Euroclydon \Eu*roc"ly*don\, 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.
   [1913 Webster]

         A tempestuous wind called Euroclydon.    --Acts xxvii.
                                                  14.
   [1913 Webster]

2. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Euroclydon
   south-east billow, the name of the wind which blew in the
   Adriatic Gulf, and which struck the ship in which Paul was
   wrecked on the coast of Malta (Acts 27:14; R.V., "Euraquilo,"
   i.e., north-east wind). It is called a "tempestuous wind," i.e.,
   as literally rendered, a "typhonic wind," or a typhoon. It is
   the modern Gregalia or Levanter. (Comp. Jonah 1:4.)
   

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