Crossword-Solution: PERSEID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Perseid | n. | 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 beleived to be fragments once connected with a comet visible in 1862. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PERSEID | anagram | PRESIDE, SPEIRED |
We have 4 clues for the answer “PERSEID”
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| Bit of a certain summer shower | 1 answer |
| Meteor of a group appearing about Aug. 11. | 1 answer |
| __ meteor: many an August streaker | 1 answer |
| meteor | 10 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with PERSEID (5)
For this reason, Leverrier pronounced, in 1867, the Perseid to be of older formation than the Leonid system.
Upon this assumption the Perseid swarm, in which the meteors are fairly well scattered along its path, should be of greater age than the Leonid.
Schiaparelli's announcement that the orbit of the bright comet of 1862 agreed strictly with the elliptic ring formed by the circulating Perseid meteors; and three other cases of close coincidence were soon afterwards brought to light.
Similarly, the Perseid meteors have a comet moving in their orbit actually immersed in the stream of meteor particles, and several other of the more conspicuous star showers have comets attending them.
The Perseidæ, the Heraclidæ, the Pirithoidæ, with Dionysus, Apollo and Artemis spring from the amours there recounted.* Moved by such passions, Hera urges on the ruin of Troy, and Zeus accuses her of a cannibal hatred.
Quotes with PERSEID (1)
In the great meteor shower of August, the Perseid, I wail all day for the shooting stars I miss. They’re out there showering down, committing hari-kiri in a flame of fatal attraction, and hissing perhaps into the ocean. But at dawn what looks like a blue dome clamps down over me like a lid on a pot. The stars and planets could smash and I’d never know. Only a piece of ashen moon occasionally climbs up or down the inside of the dome, and our local star without surcease explode…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1959–2025).