goddess of the dawn; counterpart of Greek Eos

( Roman mythology) goddess of the dawn; counterpart of Greek Eos

The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.

The rise, dawn, or beginning.

The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.

A species of crowfoot.

The aurora borealis or aurora australis ( northern or southern lights).

The rising light of the morning; the dawn or dayspring.

Auroral.

The dawn: in poetry, the goddess of dawn.

The goddess of morning; the dawning light.

A brilliant nocturnal radiance of the sky, in northern latitudes called aurora borealis or northern lights, in southern latitudes called aurora australis or southern lights.

The glow of early morning; dawn.

The Roman goddess of dawn.

The goddess of the morning or dawn; the rising light of the morning. Aurora borealis, the northern aurora, an extraordinary luminous appearance or meteor frequently visible in northern latitudes, which usually appears in streams of light ascending toward the zenith from a dusky line a few degrees above the horizon; the northern lights or streamers. The Aurora australis, a corresponding phenomenon in the southern hemisphere.

The rising light of the morning; the plant crowfoot.

They do not suggest what the aurora is nor why its appearance should have this effect. – The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Arthur Train Robert Williams Wood

If we arrive before the sunrise, there is no aurora to herald it, for in the absence of atmosphere there can be no sort of twilight. – Astronomy for Amateurs by Camille Flammarion

When the first light of the aurora broke the sky, he looked out again; - and the first glimmerings of the morning in the wood were more dreadful than the deepest darkness of the past night. – David Elginbrod by George MacDonald

And it is true that just then Aurora was happy. – The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales by Mrs. Alfred Gatty

The conflict was long and furious, for Memnon, too, had a suit of armor made for him by Vulcan, at the request of his goddess mother Aurora, and in strength and courage he was almost equal to Achilles. – The Story of Troy by Michael Clarke

Aurora, respectful to the artist, talked in a whisper. – Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall

Our hero took up his quarters at the only respectable hotel in the town, and whenever he could meet an officer of the Aurora, he very politely begged the pleasure of his company to dinner. – Mr. Midshipman Easy by Captain Frederick Marryat

I will forbear, therefore, any attempt at portraiture, and merely mention the superb aurora borealis which illuminated several nights of the autumn of 1859, perceptibly affecting the brightness of the atmosphere, while we lay becalmed a little north of the tropics. – From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Captain A. T. Mahan

The Aurora sailed four days ago. – Mr. Midshipman Easy by Captain Frederick Marryat

Now I reappear armed with powers to give her a free course, and she, that abject whom you beheld recently renouncing me, is, you will see, the young Aurora she was when she came striking at my door on the upper Alp. – The Tragic Comedians, Complete by George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009

Why, them lads o' t' Aurora as they say Kinraid shot down had fathers and mothers, maybe, a looking out for them to come home. – Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

He don't blame Mrs. Champney for feeling as she does 'bout Aurora Googe. – Flamsted quarries by Mary E. Waller

A thousand vows cover the paper, where all the roses of aurora are reflected; a thousand kisses are planted on the words, which seem born from the first glance of the sun. – The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger

It follows from this that the aurora even during a minimum year is a permanent natural phenomenon. – The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by A.E. Nordenskieold

We mustn't mind anything, Aurora! – Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall

But the nights in these cold northern latitudes are made bright and beautiful by the aurora borealis, which flashes across the sky, and is of the same nature as lightning, only that it travels through a higher region of the air. – The Boy's Book of Heroes by Helena Peake

To leave Aurora meant the surrender of all hope in the mines, the confession of another failure. – The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine