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Webster 1913 Edition
Leonid
Le′o-nid
(lē′ō̍-nĭd)
, Noun.
[From
Leo
: cf. F. léonides
, pl.] (Astron.)
One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; – so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.