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Webster 1913 Edition

Ember

Em′ber

,
Noun.
[OE.
emmeres
,
emeres
, AS.
[GREEK]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.

Em′ber

,
Adj.
[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
.
Ember days
(R. C. & Eng. Ch.)
,
days set apart for fasting and prayer in each of the four seasons of the year. The Council of Placentia [
A. D.
1095] appointed for ember days the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, Whitsuntide, the 14th of September, and the 13th of December. The weeks in which these days fall are called ember weeks.

Webster 1828 Edition

Ember

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.

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