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A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades. Now when Aldebaran was mounted high Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair. Spenser.

A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness.

A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper.

An organic radical, C3H5, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard.

small circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar. [Archaic] Almucanter staff, an ancient instrument, having an arc of fifteen degrees, formerly used at sea to take observations of the sun's amplitude at…

The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon.…

A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard.

ually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

To enamel. [Obs.] Enlightened all with stars, And richly ameled. Chapman.

A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.

Start modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.

he arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator.

Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy.

t is the hydroxide of amyl. -- Amylic fermentation (Chem.), a process of fermentation in starch or sugar in which amylic alcohol is produced. Gregory.

That part of the starch granule or granulose which is soluble in water.

The formation of starch.

Forming starch; -- applied specif. to leucoplasts.

A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance.

Resembling or containing amyl; starchlike. Amyloid degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; -- called also waxy or lardaceous degeneration.