Brown Driver Briggs

 n m
1. east, antiquity, front, that which is before, aforetime
  1) front, from the front or east, in front, mount of the East
  2) ancient time, aforetime, ancient, from of old, earliest time
  3) anciently, of old (adverb)
  4) beginning
  5) east
adv
2. eastward, to or toward the East