[f. prec.] a. intr. To move, turn or veer towards the east. Cf. EASTING vbl. sb. b. refl. To orientate, find out one’s true position.

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1858.  O. Brownson, Wks., V. 202. He must make many a turning and winding, before he can east himself, and get his face set in the right direction.

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