Leonid \Le"o*nid\ (l[=e]"[-o]*n[i^]d), n. [From Leo: cf. F. l['e]onides, pl.]

(Astron.) 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)