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Fireplace glower
Answer for the clue "Fireplace glower ", 5 letters:
ember
Alternative clues for the word ember
Word definitions for ember in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International 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. ...
Usage examples of ember.
Lying there with nothing but the glowing embers in the fireplace to brighten her chamber, she reviewed her encounter with Antonio Thorndyke.
The red ember of Phoenix, otherwise known as Manticore-A II, rested on the horizon, just above the tips of the Old Earth spruces fringing the lawn, and the gleaming gems of at least a dozen orbital platforms moved visibly against the stars.
The backwind had littered the ground with smoldering embers so she had to keep up her shieldscreen.
Maia saw buckets of seawater still being drawn to extinguish embers from the fire that had nearly sent the ship down.
With brass chopsticks the smoker picked an ember from the brazier and relit his pipe.
The tiny flames that were left danced on the coals until the edges of the embers turned red, then red-black as they cooled.
While Danielle ate, Dream Singer fed small sticks of wood to the glowing embers in the stove, then slid the coffeepot over the dancing flames to heat.
In order to find him sufficient occupation nearer home, the Emperor fanned into a flame the smouldering embers of discord between Odovacar and Feletheus, king of the Rugians, the most powerful ruler of those Danubian lands from which the Italian king himself had migrated into Italy.
Bending over, he saw that it was a deerfly lit up like an ember, but frosty green instead of orange.
Mama Efe squatted down near Cassia, poking with a stick into the ashes, searching for embers from the bonfire.
Miraculously the fires had missed two or three Inns but around them was stark emptiness, ash and embers, up to the charred encircling fence and the moat beyond.
And the cook had a firesafe, a good-sized pot in which embers were always smoldering.
Nezzie had produced a small ember from another fireplace, and with it set fire to some fluff from the seedpods of fireweed collected for tinder.
And, after a time, the blaze died to a heap of glowing embers, and the forerunning wind of a northeast storm soughed and whistled about a house deep wrapped in contented slumber, a house no longer divided against itself.
In the center lay the Fuegian fire, its embers covered with a small hide.