Aurora
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) 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.
(2): (n.) A species of crowfoot.
(3): (n.) The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.
(4): (n.) The rise, dawn, or beginning.
(5): (n.) The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights).
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
(Gr. Εώς ), in Greek and Roman mythology, is the goddess of twilight, who brings up the light of day from the east. She was the daughter of the Titan Hyperion and. his sister Theia, or his sister Euryphaeessa. She was sister to Helios (God of the Sun) and to Selene (goddess of the moon). She is the constant companion of the god of the sun, opening the golden door with rosy fingers and strewing roses in his path. By Astrseus she was mother of the winds Zephyr, Boreas, and Notus, and also of Hesperus and of the constellations. Besides this, she favored four mortals and gave birth by them to children. The first was Orion, whose love she only had for a short time, as Diana slew him with her arrows; another was Clitus, son of Mantius, whom she brought to the place of the immortal gods because of his beauty; a third was" Tithonus, the son of Laomedon, king of Troy; the fourth was Cephalus, whom she abducted from his wife Procris and later returned again, and by whom she had a son, Phaethon.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [3]
A city in Illinois, U.S., 35 m. SW. of Chicago, said to have been the first town to light the streets with electricity.
