stelliferous (ste lifer us)

[L. stellifer, starry, stella, a star, + ferre = E. bearl.] Having or abounding with stars. stelliform (stel'i-fôrm), a. [L. stella, a star, + form a, form.] Star-like in shape; stellate in form; asteroid; radiated. stellifyt (stel'i-fi), v. t. [ IMG:content-2078.jpg:[graphic] No wonder is thogh Jove her stellifye . Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 525. Some thinke this floud to be Nilus, which is also Gyon; and therefore stellified , because it direct eth his course from the Meridian. It consist eth of many stars, and lieth iust beneath the star called Canopus, or Ptolomæa. Heywood, Hierarchy of Angels, p. 176.