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A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars.

To twinkle; to glance; to gleam. [Obs.] When sparkling stars twire not. Shak.

ht with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel. Dodsley. No more beneath soft eve's consenting star Fandango twirls his jocund castanet. Byron.

ll which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.

ch affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage. Where highest woods, impenetrable To star or sunlight, spread their umbrage broad. Milton.

the water. -- Under way, or Under weigh (Naut.), in a condition to make progress; having started.

a subordinate; hence, a mean, sorry fellow. Milton. he fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Shak.

A motor starter provided with an underload switch.

; without definite shape or structure; as, an unformed, or unorganized, ferment. Unformed stars (Astron.), stars not grouped into any constellation; informed stars. See Sporades.

o North American plants, the yellow-flowered colicroot (Aletris farinosa) and the blazing star (Chamælirium luteum). Both are used in medicine. -- Unicorn shell (Zoöl.), any one of several species of marine gastropods having a prominent spine on the lip of the shell. Most of them belong to the genera Monoceros and Leu…

To free from starch; to make limp or pliable.

rty offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold. After a solemn pause, Mr. Glossin offered the upset price for the lands and barony of Ellangowan. Sir W. Scott.

To stare or stand upward; hence, to be uplifted or conspicuous. "Rearing fiercely their upstaring crests." Spenser.

To start or spring up suddenly. Spenser. Tennyson.

A chart or catalogue of fixed stars, especially of stars visible to the naked eye.

onspicuous of the northern constellations. It is situated near the pole, and contains the stars which form the Dipper, or Charles's Wain, two of which are the Pointers, or stars which point towards the North Star. -- Ursa Minor Etym: [L.], the Little Bear, the constellation nearest the north pole. It contains the nort…

to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room. The stars that usher evening rose. Milton. The Examiner was ushered into the world by a letter, setting forth the great genius of the author. Addison.

pipe with an adjustable opening. -- Variable quantity (Math.), a variable. -- Variable stars (Astron.), fixed stars which vary in their brightness, usually in more or less uniform periods.

Annual variation (Astron.), the yearly change in the right ascension or declination of a star, produced by the combined effects of the precession of the equinoxes and the proper motion of the star. -- Calculus of variations. See under Calculus. -- Variation compass. See under Compass. -- Variation of the moon (Astr…

Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile. The sun and every vassal star. Keble.