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Leonid

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; - so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Leonid'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​l/leonid.html. 1828.