ember1 (ember)

[Early mod. E. also im ber, imbre, ymber; in pl. emmeres, emeres, north. ammeris, (mod. Sc. emmers, aumers), (Leechd, iii. 30, 18), @myrian (Benson), pl., = Lent, Whitsun, Holyrood, and Lucie. Old rime. embering-dayst (em'bėr-ing-dāz), n . pl . The ember-days. Divers of the king's subjects have of late more than in times past broken and contemned such abstinence, which hath been used in this realm upon the Fridays and Sat urdays, the embering -days, and other udaed by Halla Emberiza (em-be-rīʻza), n. MLG. amere, emere, amer, LG. emern, aumern OHG. eimurja, MHG. eimere, eimer, G. dial. IMG:content-0363.jpg:[ocr errors] eimyrja, aamyrja (also, by popular etym., eld myrja, as if ern dial.) + myrja, embers; but Norw. (eastern myrja = Sw. mörja, embers, is itself an abbr. of myrja Dammer, pl. embers. The ult. = origin is unknown.] A small live coal, brand of wood, or the like; in the plural, live cinders or ashes; the smouldering remains of a fire. O gracious God! remove my great incumbers, Kindle again my faiths neer-dying imbers . Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Ark. He takes a lighted ember out of the covered ve el. Colebrooke. He rakes hot embers , and renews the fires. Dryden, Eneid. So long as our hearts preserve the feeblest spark of life, they preserve also, shivering near that pale ember , a starved, ghostly longing for appreciation and affection. Charlotte Brontë , Shirley, x. ember2 (em'ber), n. [In mod. E. and ME. only in comp.; ember - days , ember - week ), ymbren- , in comp. ymbren- dæg , ember-day, ymbren-wice, ember-week, ymbren-fæsten, ember-fast; also abbr. ymbren , dat. pl. ymbrenum , ember-days; embrin , ymbren , ymbrene , ymbryne , a circuit, course ( geáres ymbryne , the year's course; Len ctenes ymbren, the vernal equinox, lit. the return of spring); ymb , ymbe , embe , around (= OHG. umbi- , G. um-, L. ambi- , Gr. άμφι- , around: see ambi- , amphi- , um-), + ryne, a running, a course, rinnan , run. The Icel. imbru - dagar , OSw. ymberdagar , Norw. imbredagar , ember days, Icel. imbru - nātt , ember-night, Icel. imbru vika , Norw. imbrevika , ember-week, are in the first element from the E.; while the equiv. Sw. tamper - dagar , Dan. tamper - dage , also kratember , [NL. (Linnæ us; earlier in Kilian, Kilian, 1598), embritze, emmeritz, equiv. ämerinc, G. emmering, ämmering (= MD. emme rinck), G. also emmerling, ämmerling (= MD.em merlinck ), a bunting, dim. of OHG. amero, MHG. amer, G. ammer, a bunting, = AS. amore, E. * ammer, hammer, hammer, in yellowhammer: see yellow hammer.] A genus of buntings, serine birds of the family Fringillid a, such as the common corn-bunting of Europe ( E. mil i aria), art, the yellow yellow bunting bunting ( E. citrin ell a ), the cirl-bunting -bunting ( E. cirl us ), the ortolan ( E. hortu lana), etc. The limits of the genus are indefinite, and the term has no more exact meaning than bunting (which see). In a late restricted sense it includes more than 50 species, confined to the Palæarctic, Indian, and Ethiopian regions. None of the very many North and South American buntings which have been called Emberiza properly belong to this genus. See Emberizina, and cuts under bunting and cirl - bunting. fbuntings, conirostral pas