starry (star i)

[ with stars. IMG:content-2014.png:[blocks in formation] The starry Galileo, with his woes. Byron, Childe Harold, iv. 54. Were 't not much trouble to your starry employments, I a poor mortal would entreat your furtherance In a terrestrial busine . Tomkis (?), Albumazar, i. 5. Starry campion, a species of catch-fly, Silene stell at a , found in the eastern United States. It has a slender stem 3 feet high, leaves partly in whorls (whence the name), and a loose panicle of white flowers with a bell-shaped calyx and fringed petals. - Starry hummer, a hummingbird of the genus Stellula , as S. calliope . - Starry puffball. Same as earth - star.- Starry ray. See ray 2. star-sapphire (stär's afir), n. Same as asteriated sapphire (see sapphire ) and asteria . star-saxifrage (stär's ak"si-frāj), n. A small saxifrage, Saxifraga stellar is , found northward in both hemispheres, having white starry flow IMG:content-2015.png:[blocks in formation] star-shoot, star-shot (stär'shöt, stär's hot), n. A gelatinous substance often found in wet meadows, and formerly supposed to be the ex 5909 and polished piece of the trunk of a petrified tree-fern. See Psaronius.