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Ember
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What's The Definition Of Ember?
[n] a hot glowing or smouldering fragment of wood or coal left from a fire
Synonyms | Synonyms for Ember: coal Related Terms | Find terms related to Ember: alluvion | alluvium | ash | brand | burning ember | cinder | clinker | coal | deposition | deposits | diluvium | draff | dregs | dross | feces | firebrand | froth | grounds | lees | live coal | loess | moraine | offscum | precipitate | precipitation | scoria | scum | sediment | settlings | silt | sinter | slag | smut | soot | sublimate See Also | fragment Ember In Webster's Dictionary \Em"ber\, n. [OE. emmeres, emeres, AS. ?myrie; akin to
Icel. eimyrja, Dan. emmer, MHG. eimere; cf. Icel. eimr vapor,
smoke.]
A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the
plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering
remains of a fire. ``He rakes hot embers.'' --Dryden.
He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel.
--Colebrooke.
\Em"ber\, a. [OE. ymber, AS. ymbren, ymbryne, prop., running around, circuit; ymbe around + ryne a running, fr. rinnan to run. See {Amb-}, and {Run}.] Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts. {Ember days} (R. C. & Eng. Ch.), days set apart for fasting and prayer in each of the four seasons of the year. The Council of Placentia [A. D. 1095] appointed for ember days the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, Whitsuntide, the 14th of September, and the 13th of December. The weeks in which these days fall are called ember weeks. |
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