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ponent
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ponent, a. [OF., fr. It. ponente, properly, setting (applied to the setting sun), fr. L. ponens, p. pr. of ponere to set, put.].
Western; occidental. [1913 Webster]
"Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds."
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