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A bright phenomenon; a meteor. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening. Shak.

(Astron.) See Shooting star. -- Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a meteorite; an aërolite. -- Falling tide, the ebb tide. -- Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq.] Bartlett.

Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus. Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth. Danham.

h design; to adorn with figures. The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. Shak.

A luminous meteor, resembling a ball of fire passing rapidly through the air, and sometimes exploding.

A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket.

or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being. We take a falling meteor for a star. Cowley. If a man can be fully assured of anything for a truth, without having examined, what is there that he may not embrace for truLocke. Most of our ingenious young men take up some cried-up English poet for…

e in advance; to forebode. [Obs.] Udall. Laugh at your misery, as foredeeming you An idle meteor. J. Webster.

Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.

. . the whole is generally crude, harsh, and indigested. Burke. This, like an indigested meteor, appeared and disappeared almost at the same time. South.

of weather; inclemency. Boyle. By unseasonable weather, by intemperateness of the air or meteors. Sir M. Hale.

r impurities from cast iron, rendering it less brittle, and to some extent malleable. -- Meteoric iron (Chem.), iron forming a large, and often the chief, ingredient of meteorites. It invariably contains a small amount of nickel and cobalt. Cf. Meteorite. -- Pig iron, the form in which cast iron is made at the blast…

Not subject to the laws of nature; uncontrolled. Or, meteorlike, flame lawless through the void. Pope. -- Law"less*ly, adv. -- Law"less*ness, n.

See the Note under Meteorite.

A meteorite characterized by the presence of but a small amount of metallic iron.

ng and flying tandem, used for attaining great heights and for sending up instruments for meteorological observations or a man for military reconnoissance; also, a kite of such a train.

which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth. Ps. xxv. 10. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Gray.…

hout reference to its scientific characteristics; as, the physiognomy of a plant, or of a meteor.

The branch of meteorology treating of the automatic registration of the precipitation of rain, snow, etc.; also, the graphic presentation of precipitation data.

That department of meteorology that treats of the measurement of the precipitation of rain, snow, etc.