Dictionary Entry

ether

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈiːθə/Used In Literature ↓

The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities.

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. etherextract etherether petroleumether diethylether ethyl

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Poetry examples for “ether”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

By laws eternal to the aërial kind.
Some in the fields of purest ether play,
And bask and whiten in the blaze of day:

And gone as fleet,
Through delicatest ether feathering soft their solitary beat,
With ne'er a light plume dropp'd, nor any trace

To make, not follow, precedent.
From love’s abysmal ether rare
If I to men have here made known

And look of exile from some great repose, the sphere
Of ether, moved by ether only, or
By something still more tranquil.

By the delicious law of that ellipse
Wherein all citizens of ether move,
With hastening pace to come

Give me to breathe in peace and in surprise
The light-thrill'd ether of your rarest skies,
Till inmost absolution start

And maiden's simple mood,
Which longs for ether and infinitude,
As thou, being God, crav'st littleness and earth!

It lies from Heaven across the flood
Of ether, as a bridge.
Beneath, the tides of day and night

granted who discovered
America ether the movies
may claim general importance

And I said--"She is warmer than Dian:
She rolls through an ether of sighs--
She revels in a region of sighs: