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lyrid


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Lyrid  \Ly"rid\  (l[imac]"r[i^]d),  n.  (Astron.) 
  One  of  the  group  of  shooting  stars  which  come  into  the  air  in 
  certain  years  on  or  about  the  19th  of  April;  --  so  called 
  because  the  apparent  path  among  the  stars  the  stars  if 
  produced  back  wards  crosses  the  constellation  Lyra.