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in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding of a air, presents a starlike appearance.

ies 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-finger, and stellerid.

A view of the universe of brighter stars as it would appear to an observer transported into space outside or beyond our universe of stars.

Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp. Where least og state there most of love is shown. Dryden.

Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed. Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. Southey.

d me in London almost a week. Evelyn. I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me new. Locke.

To turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven. [Obs. or R.] B. Jonson.

Having the shape or appearance of little stars; radiated.

n image of a single picture projected upon a screen of ground glass is made to present an appearance of relief, and may be viewed by several persons at once.

An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are sup…

t the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance.

to be on foot. They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears. I. Watts.

Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze. Stony coral. (Zoöl.) Same as Stone coral, under Stone.

A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.

filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.

the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story. How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing. Shak. It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high. Bp. Wilkins.

ht to the mark. "Floating straight." Shak. I know thy generous temper well; Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze. Addison. Everything was going on straight. W. Black.

he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career. "A strain of gallantry." Sir W. Scott. Such take too high a strain at first. Bacon. The genius and strain of the book of Proverbs. Tillotson. It [Pilgrim's Progress] seems a novelty, and yet contains Nothing…

To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress. "Strangle such thoughts." Shak.

erial in successive layers in the growth of a cell wall, thus giving rise to a stratified appearance.