(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:07:39

Po"nent (?), a. [OF., fr. It. ponente, properly, setting (applied to the setting sun), fr. L. ponens, p. pr. of ponere to set, put.]

Western; occidental.

[R.]

Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. Milton.

 

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