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Starch made from Indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc.

[apples] consist more of air than water . . . ; others more of water than wind, as your costards and pomewaters. Muffett.

A costermonger.

A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled. Custard apple (Bot.), a low tree or shrub of tropical America, including several species of Anona (A. squamosa, reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp. -- Custard coffin, pastr…

Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly. "Their dastard souls." Addison.

To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage. Dryden.

The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.

Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.

Dastardliness.

Base timidity; cowardliness.

The morning star; the star which ushers in the day. A dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. 2 Peter i. 19.

Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Major, or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in the heavens; -- called also Canicula, and, in astronomical charts, a Canis Majoris. See Dog days.

urious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.

To bastardize. [Obs.]

A selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service. Porson.

The great bustard.

To starve with hunger; to famish. [Obs.] Shak.

Fated to be unfortunate; unlucky; as, an ill-starred man or day.

To bastardize; to debase. [Obs.] Milton.

To stud as with stars. [R.] "A golden throne instarred with gems." J. Barlow.