1. (n.) A rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises\.

2. (n.) The rise, dawn, or beginning.

3. (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.

4. (n.) A species of crowfoot.

5. (n.) The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights).

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