starlet (starlet)

[ Nebulæ may be comparatively near, though the starlets of which they are made up appear extremely minute. 2. A kind of small starfish. starlight (stär'līt), n. and a. H. Spencer. [ I. n. 1. The light proceeding from the stars. Nor walk by moon Or glittering starlight without thee is sweet. Milton, P. L., iv. 656. Hence-2. A faint or feeble light. Scripture only, and not any star - light of man's reason. Hooker , Eccles. Polity, iii. 11. II. a. Lighted by the stars, or by the stars only. A starlight evening, and a morning fair. Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, i. 548. starlike (stär'lik), a. [ star1 + like2 .] 1. Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star: as, starlike flowers.-2. Bright; lustrous; shining; luminous: as, starlike eyes.