3. Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; -- used of gems
and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the
East. "Pearls round and orient." Jer. Taylor. "Orient gems."
Wordsworth. "Orient liquor in a crystal glass." Milton.
O"ri*ent, n. 1. The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in
the morning; the east.
[Morn] came furrowing all the orient into gold.
Tennyson.