Search the Dictionary

A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy.

A genus of echinoderms.

Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.

Of or pertaining to the Asterioidea. -- n.

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 point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto- mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures.

The smaller of the two otoliths found in the inner ear of many fishes.

The figure of a star, thus,

An asterisk, or mark of reference. [R.]

In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.

Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum.

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.

Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids.

A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone. Hugh Miller.

(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.

A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.

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

Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.

Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating.

Weakness of sight. Quain. -- As`the*nop"ic, a.