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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EMBER, in ember-days, ember-weeks, is the Saxon emb-ren, or ymb-ryne, a circle, circuit or revolution, from ymb, around, and ren, or ryne, course, from the root of run. Ember-days are the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday,after Quadragesima Sunday, after Whitsunday, after Holyrood day in September, and after St. Lucia's day in December. Ember-days are days returning at certain seasons; Ember-weeks, the weeks in which these days fall; and formerly, our ancestors used the words Ember-fast and Ember-tide or season.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering [syn: ember, coal]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English eymere, from Old Norse eimyrja; akin to Old English ?merge ashes, Latin urere to burn Date: 14th century 1. a glowing fragment (as of coal) from a fire; especially one smoldering in ashes 2. plural the smoldering remains of a fire 3. plural slowly dying or fading emotions, memories, ideas, or responses still capable of being revived <the embers of his past>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. 1 (usu. in pl.) a small piece of glowing coal or wood in a dying fire. 2 an almost extinct residue of a past activity, feeling, etc. Etymology: OE æmyrge f. Gmc 2. n. (in full ember-goose) = great northern diver. Etymology: Norw. emmer

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel. --Colebrooke.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(embers) The embers of a fire are small pieces of wood or coal that remain and glow with heat after the fire has finished burning. N-COUNT: usu pl

Moby Thesaurus

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