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    ponent
CIDE DICTIONARY
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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