Euroclydon

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Euroclydon \Eu*roc"ly*don\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; ? the southeast
     wind + ? wave, billow; according to another reading, ?, i. e.
     a north-east wind, as in the Latin Vulgate Euro-aquilo.]
     A tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the
     Mediterranean. See {Levanter}.
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           A tempestuous wind called Euroclydon.    --Acts xxvii.
                                                    14.
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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Euroclydon
     south-east billow, the name of the wind which blew in the
     Adriatic Gulf, and which struck the ship in which Paul was
     wrecked on the coast of Malta (Acts 27:14; R.V., "Euraquilo,"
     i.e., north-east wind). It is called a "tempestuous wind," i.e.,
     as literally rendered, a "typhonic wind," or a typhoon. It is
     the modern Gregalia or Levanter. (Comp. Jonah 1:4.)