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ural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire. "He rakes hot embers." Dryden. He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel. Colebrooke.

The loon or great northern diver. See Loon. [Written also emmer-goose and imber-goose.]

Ember days. [Obs.]

a natural subfamily including buntings and some New World sparrows. Syn. -- subfamily Emberizidae, subfamily Emberizinae. [WordNet 1.5]

A kind of soft, unpressed cream cheese made in the vicinity of Camembert, near Argentan, France; also, any cheese of the same type, wherever made.

Fig.: With reference to the end of the year and to the winter season; as, the December of his life.

To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. Buckle.

The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head. Macaulay.

To fail to remember; to forget. [Obs. or Archaic]

Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu.

To remember; to cause to remember; to mention. [Obs.]

Having limbs; -- chiefly used in composition.

The state of being a member.

To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.

One who is not a member.

State of not being a member.

The eleventh month of the year, containing thirty days.

See Ramberge.

enewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect; as, I remember the fact; he remembers the events of his childhood; I cannot remember dates. We are said to remember anithing, when the idea of it ariseI. Watts.

Capable or worthy of being remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv. The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable. Coleridge.