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  1. noun A small, glowing piece of coal or wood, as in a dying fire.
  2. noun The smoldering coal or ash of a dying fire.

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  • Now Sol was dying-ember red, and Tau Ceti showed brilliant white. —  A Gift From Earth
  • Instead of fanning a gentle feminine ember, they're faced with a forest fire, so they take their wind elsewhere. —  Little Myth Marker
  • It felt like 9/11 (INAUDIBLE) caused by an ember -- —  CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2005
  • When a palm tree suddenly gets an ember, they go up right away, just immediately. —  CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2007
  • And that was it. —  A Change of Seasons
 

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  1. Middle English embre, from Old English ǣmerge.

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  1. Early modern English also imber, imbre, ymber; from Middle English eymbre, eymery, usually in plural emmeres, emeres, northern ammeris, ameris (modern Scots emmers, aumers), from Anglo-Saxon ǣmergean (Leechd, iii. 30, 18), ǣmyrian (Benson), plural, = Middle Low German āmere, ēmere, āmer, Low German emern, aumern = Old High German eimurja, Middle High German eimere, eimer, German dial. (Bavarian) aimern, emmern = Icelandic eimyrja = Norwegian eimyrja, aamyrja (also, by popular etymology, eldmyrja, as if from eld = Icelandic eldr, fire (see elding), + myrja, embers; but Norwegian (eastern dial.) myrja = Swedish mörja, embers, is itself an abbreviation of eimyrja) = Danish emmer, plural, embers. The ult. origin is unknown.
  2. In modern English and Middle English only in comp.; from Middle English embyr-, ymber-, umbri-, (see ember-days, ember-week), from Anglo-Saxon ymbren-, in comp. ymbren-dæg, ember-day, ymbren-wice, ember-week, ymbren-fæsten, ember-fast; also abbreviation ymbren, dative plural ymbrenum, ember-days; from embryne, embrin, ymbren, ymbrene, ymbryne, a circuit, course (geāres ymbryne, the year's course; Lenctenes ymbren, the vernal equinox, literally the return of spring); from ymb, ymbe, embe, around (= Old High German umbi-, German um-, Latin ambi-, Greek ἀμφι-, around:see ambi-, amphi-, um-), + ryne, a running, a course, from rinnan, run. The Icelandic imbru-dagar, Old Swedish ymberdagar, Norwegian imbredagar, ember-days, Icelandic imbru-nātt, ember-night, Icelandic imbruvika, Norwegian imbrevika, ember-week, are in the first element from the English; while the equivalent Swedish tamper-dagar, Danish tamper-dage, also kvatember, Dutch quatertemper, quatemper, Low German tamper, quatertamper, German quatember, formerly kottember, kotemer, etc., are corruptions of the Middle Latin quatuor tempora, the four seasons, applied to the ember-days.
 

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