Leonid

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

  Leonid \Le"o*nid\ (l[=e]"[-o]*n[i^]d), n. [From {Leo}: cf. F.
     l['e]onides, pl.] (Astron.)
     One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower
     that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of
     about thirty-three years; -- so called because these shooting
     stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from


     the constellation Leo.
     [1913 Webster]