Crossword clues for lemures
lemures
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lemures \Lem"u*res\ (l[e^]m"[-u]*r[=e]z; E. l[=e]"m[=u]rz), n. pl. [L. See Lemur.] Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters.
The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
n. The spirits or ghosts of the dead.
Wikipedia
In Roman mythology, the lemures were shades or spirits of the restless or malignant dead, and are probably cognate with an extended sense of larvae (from Latin larva, "mask") as disturbing or frightening. Lemures is the more common literary term but even this is rare: it is used by the Augustan poets Horace and Ovid, the latter in his Fasti, the six-book calendar poem on Roman holidays and religious customs.
The word lemures can be traced to the PIE stem *, which also appears in the name of the Greek monster Lamia.
Usage examples of "lemures".
Languid limbs stretched, cherry-red and glistening with the blood of the gutted, half-crushed lemures that filled the bowl-shaped bed.
Over the lip of the dell in which she stood, a pale, glistening army appeared: a moaning wave of goggle-eyed, shapeless fleshy things, Lemures, the mindless, maggot-like living refuse of Hell.
The cavern was carpeted in yellow as lemures poured from holes in the ground, caves, or thin air, summoned by the howling pit fiend above the lava pit.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lemures deluged Sunbright, and none could be killed.
Sunbright scooched low, but still a clap of thunder almost bowled him into the mass of lemures pressing him.
Scores of shuffling, dripping lemures were obliterated, blown to fragments and steam by the fearsome bolt.
Where they landed they crushed lemures by the handful, so yellow gore marked their taloned feet.
Headless, blinded, the imp staggered, stepped back, piled up questing lemures against the back of its knees, and crumpled atop them.
Yet three more imps crowded in, smashing lemures aside to kill the human and elf.
Primidon was called on, and a burning cloud like a miniature thunderhead scorched lemures and sent up a sickening stench like charred garbage.
It lashed out with long-clawed hands for support, rending lemures to yellow putty.
Not far off, perhaps six feet, was a shaky-looking promontory, with staggering lemures beyond.
But the destruction had circumvented them, while even the lemures behind them had been reduced to puddles.
Imps and lemures and skeletal men hunkered and scuttled like cockroaches exposed to the blinding flare of Lady Polaris and her power.
With great sweeps of their flails, they spattered lemures to gobbets, then punched down on the squirming mass to ignite it, so the lemures burned even as they reformed.