Ember [noun]

Place the pieces close together, eliminating gaps that would drop your embers down into the snow.

When the Khoisan hunter-gatherers of sub-Saharan Africa gazed upon the meandering trail of stars and dust that split the night sky, they saw the embers of a campfire.

Another about mulch that lets embers smolder until a wind whips them into “open flames that creep right up to people’s house walls.”

I understood, and, stepping to the fire, returned with a charred ember.

The other snatched a blazing ember from the mud chimney and struck the leading wolf dead partly within the hut.

When he ceased silence reigned, except for the occasional snapping of a burning ember.

It grew and expanded till it formed a huge ember-mottled orchid with vast petals trembling in the wind.

Darius lay as I had last seen him; and him we buried in the maize clearing at the back, with the ember glow for funeral lights.

All nature will be struggling and dying, with the sun a red ball turning dark like a cooling ember.

Ember-goose (Colymbus septentrionalis), an aquatic bird, known also as the great northern diver and loon.