Ember

4 definitions found

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

  Ember \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.


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           He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel.
                                                    --Colebrooke.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ember \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.
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     {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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ember
       n : a hot glowing or smouldering fragment of wood or coal left
           from a fire [syn: {coal}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "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