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A hairlike envelope. The nucleus and chevelure of nebulous star. Sir. W. Hershel.

of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.

pe, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.

A round body; an orb. Pope. Fairest of stars . . . that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet. Milton.

About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.

To starve; to famish. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A little cloud. R. Browning. Eve's first star through fleecy cloudlet peeping. Coleridge.

the spaces in the Milky Way which are very black, owing to the nearly complete absence of stars; esp., the large space near the Southern Cross sometimes called the Black Magellanic Cloud.

A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.

Lofty in feeling; exultant; pround; upstart. Our painted fools and cockhorse peasantry. Marlowe.

r resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuosly. A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. Macaulay.

yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.

ple with colonists; to migrate to and settle in. Bacon. They that would thus colonize the stars with inhabitants. Howell.

ecome detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars.

To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin. Here the anthem doth commence. Shak. His heaven commences ere the world be past. Goldsmith.

The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginnig; start. The time of Henry VII . . . nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed "modern history."

ls from the liquid in which they are grown, subjecting to heavy pressure, and mixing with starch or flour.

ness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy. His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there's more conceit in him than is in a mallet. Shak.

. O Marcia, let me hope thy kind concerns And gentle wishes follow me to beattle. {\*\bkmkstart last}\error \*\bkmkend last}Addison.

sh to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning. As for radish and the like, they are for condiments, and not for nourishment. Bacon.