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A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc.

Shaped like a crescent. Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns. Milton.

burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions. Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus. Milton. As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy luster from a tower of strength. Wordsworth.

appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train. "Comate, crinite, caudate stars."

ttony. -- Cross estoilé (Her.). a cross, each of whose arms is pointed like the ray of a star; that is, a star having four long points only. -- Cross of Calvary. See Calvary, 3. -- Southern cross. (Astron.) See under Southern. -- To do a thing on the cross, to act dishonestly; -- opposed to acting on the square. [S…

A starfish.

hrong. The crowd of Vanity Fair. Macualay. Crowds that stream from yawning doors. {\*\bkmkstart here}Tennyson.

ng, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc.

m of astronomy, two transparent spheres imagined to exist between the region of the fixed stars and the primum mobile (or outer circle of the heavens, which by its motion was supposed to carry round all those within it), in order to explain certain movements of the heavently bodies. -- Crystalline lens (Anat.), the ca…

seeds and juice with considerable force through the opening thus made. See Elaterium. -- Star cucumber,a climbing weed (Sicyos angulatus) with prickly fruit.

o the sleeve of the garment or separate;especially, in modern times, such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper, or the like.

l, the upper part of which is cut away on four sides, leaving vertical faces. -- Cushion star (Zoöl.) a pentagonal starfish belonging to Goniaster, Astrogonium, and other allied genera; -- so called from its form.

A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a birdge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.

Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic cycle.

A voracious appetite, like that of a starved dog.

The constellation of the Lesser Bear, to which, as containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed.

A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called also inulin. See Inulin.

A shell or cup of pastry filled with custard, whipped cream, crushed macaroons, etc.

To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.

To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart. My star that dartles the red and the blue. R. Browning.