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A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure. Chaucer. " Your eyes are lodestars." Shak. The pilot can no loadstar see. Spenser.

Same as Loadstar.

Texas; -- a nickname alluding to the single star on its coat of arms, being the device used on its flag and seal when it was a republic.

e name of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica (formerly Sinapis), as white mustard (B. alba), black mustard (B. Nigra), wild mustard or charlock (B. Sinapistrum).

Minnesota; -- a nickname.

To excel or overcome in staring; to face down. I would outstare the sternest eyes that look. Shak.

To start out or up. Chaucer.

To outstare. [Obs.] Shak.

An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.

Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North.

d to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India.

A starfish, or brittle star.

, attached to an internal- combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.

The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.

See Sun star, under Sun.

A motor starter provided with an underload switch.

To free from starch; to make limp or pliable.

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.

An aquatic plant (Schollera graminea) with grassy leaves, and yellow star-shaped blossoms.