Perseid

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

  Perseid \Per"se*id\, n. [From {Perseus}.] (Astron.)
     One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about
     the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently
     radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are probably
     fragments of Swift's comet of 1862 (III).
     [1913 Webster + Webster 1913 Suppl.]