EM'BERS, noun plural Small coals of fire with ashes; the residuum of wood, coal or other combustibles not extinguished; cinders. He rakes hot embers and renews the fires. It is used by Colebrooke in the singular. He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel.
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