STARRY

a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Abounding with stars; adorned with stars. "Above the starry sky." Pope.

2.
a.

Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame. Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influence Sir W. Scott.

3.
a.

Shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes.

4.
a.

Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate. Starry ray (Zoöl.), a European skate (Raita radiata); -- so called from the stellate bases of the dorsal spines.

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