meteoric shower

noun

, Astronomy.

First recorded in 1825–35

Astronomers will be surprised to read the declaration of Mr. Talmage that the meteoric shower has never been explained.

Mr. Talmage tells us that his father was terrified by the meteoric shower that visited our earth in 1833.

This theory was adopted by Humboldt, Arago, and others, shortly after the occurrence of the meteoric shower of 1833.

A meteor, two-thirds the size of the moon, was seen during the great meteoric shower in the United States.

Hat-boxes, bandboxes, and valises burst like a meteoric shower out of a crater. '

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