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One who stares, or gazes.

Starved. Chaucer.

The European redstart.

numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-f…

One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer.

The act or practice of observing the stars with attention; contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or astronomy. Swift.

With a staring look.

Stiff; rigid. Chaucer. Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark. Spenser. His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone. Spenser. Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies. Shak. The north is not so stark and cold. B. Jonson.

In a stark manner; stiffly; strongly. Its onward force too starky pent In figure, bone, and lineament. Emerson.

The quality or state of being stark.

Being without stars; having no stars visible; as, a starless night. Milton.

The light given by the stars. Nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. Milton.

Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers.

Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera. The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Ste…

Lighted by the stars; starlight.

A fortune teller; an astrologer; -- used in contempt. B. Jonson.

The European starling. [Prov. Eng.]

dylura cristata) having the nose expanded at the end into a stellate disk; -- called also star-nosed mole.

A nobleman who possessed a starosty. [Poland]

A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life. [Poland] Brande & C.