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perseid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perseid \Per"se*id\, n. [From Perseus.] (Astron.) One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are probably fragments of Swift's comet 1862 (III).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
meteor from an annual shower that appears to radiate from the constellation Perseus, 1867, from Modern Latin Perseides (plural), from Greek Perseis "daughter of Perseus" (see Perseus; also see -id). The name might have been introduced in English via the writings of Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli. Other recorded old names for them in English include August meteors and Tears of St. Lawrence.\n\n\n
Wiktionary
n. (context zoology English) Any member of the Perseidae.
Usage examples of "perseid".
Look at II-F-2, my Saharan scribble, or the Perseid epistles posted between II-A and -B.
Icarus was the result of an impact, made a further name for himself by rediscovering the asteroids Apollo, which was part of the Eta-aquarid meteor stream, and Hermes, which was part of the Perseid meteor stream.
It was a night of the Perseid Meteor shower, and the snow was reflecting the meteor light.
Later, I discovered that they were the stragglers of the annual Perseid shower, but Mother had another explanation.
He took to Hhesst instantly, telling him stories of his early service during the Perseid Rebellion, making faces for all the characters he described.
Fuentes was an old soldier, and it seemed that every skirmish he fought in the Perseid Rebellion formed a line on that thick, rugged face.
It would be a good night, and she could keep an eye out for stragglers from the Perseid meteor storm as she walked to Burdock Farm.
Wilson wondered where the meteors had come from: it was too early for the Perseids, and no new comets had been reported.
Shooting stars were more frequent than during the August Perseids, and astronomers speculated that this might imply the possibility of more massive asteroid strikes.
Anyhow, when I had completed the Perseid novella, my research after further classical examples of the aforementioned themes led me to the minor mythic hero Bellerophon of Corinth.
Polyeidus reminds him that Polyeidus never pretended authorship: Polyeidus is the story, more or less, in any case its marks and spaces: the author could be Antoninus Liberalis, for example, Hesiod, Homer, Hyginus, Ovid, Pindar, Plutarch, the Scholiast on the Iliad, Tzetzes, Robert Graves, Edith Hamilton, Lord Raglan, Joseph Campbell, the author of the Perseid, someone imitating that author -- anyone, in short, who has ever written or will write about the myth of Bellerophon and Chimera.
As I'd come to hope and fancy, the Perseid reliefs and my altared view were not coterminous there where I sat regnant with Andromeda.
Polyeidus's observations to the contrary notwithstanding, I looked for a tempest to wreck our ship as in that remarkable sentence in Perseid where the t's of the approaching storm trip through the humming n's of inattention and are joined by furious s's to strike the vessel as Perseus struck Andromeda.
We think of meteors as harmless and beautiful, especially when they come in large groups and provide spectacular displays such as the Leonid and Perseid meteor showers.