Em″ber (?), n. [OE. emmeres, emeres, AS. �myrie; akin to Icel. eimyrja, Dan. emmer, MHG. eimere; cf. Icel. eimr vapor, smoke.] A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; — used chiefly in the plural, 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.