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A starfish; one of the Asterioidea.

A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is starshaped or pentagonal.

The figure of a star, thus,

A small cluster of stars.

A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.

(Astron.) A double star in the Pleiades (21 k and 22 l Pleiadum, of the 5.8 and 6.4 magnitude respectively), appearing as a single star of the 5.3 magnitude to the naked eye.

To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun. [Obs.] Spenser.

to strike with amazement; to confound with wonder, surprise, or fear. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind. Milton.

A coral of the family Astræidæ; a star coral.

Pertaining to, coming from, or resembling, the stars; starry; starlike. Shines only with an astral luster. I. Taylor. Some astral forms I must invoke by prayer. Dryden. Astral lamp, an Argand lamp so constructed that no shadow is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped reservoir in which the oil is contained.…

Bearing stars. [R.] Blount.

The combining form of the Greek word 'a`stron, meaning star.

A bitter herb, probably the same as aster, or starwort. Spenser.

The creation or evolution of the stars or the heavens. H. Spencer.

The science or knowledge of the stars, esp. the fixed stars. Bouvier.

The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.

A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone. [Obs.] [Written also astrite and astrion.]

An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused.

A worshiper of the stars. Morley.

The worship of the stars.