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[ASTRONOMIEN.] * as-tron-om-yer, s. [ASTRONOMER.] as-tro-phěl, *ǎs-tro-fell, 8. [Gr. ἄστρον (astron) a star; second element doubtful.] A bitter herb; probably what the old botanists called starwort. "My little flock, whom earst I lov'd so well, And wont to feed with finest gra e that grew, Feede ye henceforth on bitter astrofell And stinking smallage and unsaverie rue." Spenser: Daphne , 344 "The gods, which all things see, this same beheld, And pittying this paire of of lovers trew, Transformed them, there lying on the field, Into one flowre that is both red and blew: It first growes red, and then to blew doth fade, Like astrophel , Todd's Spenser, vol. viii., p. 60. as-tro-pho-to-mět-ric-al, a. [Gr. ἄστρον (astron) a star; φωτός ( photos ), gen it. sing. of φῶς ( phōs ) = light, and μέτρον (metron) = a measure.] Pertaining to the measurement of the light which reaches the earth from the several stars. "On a new Astrophotometrical method by Prof. Ch. V. Zenger."-Astron. Soc. Notices , vol. xxxviii. 65.