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▪ I. instar, v.|ɪnˈstɑː(r)|
Also 7 en-.
[in-1.]
1. trans. To set as a star; to make a star of.
1592Daniel Delia xxvii, Though time do spoyle her of the fairest vaile That euer yet mortallitie did couer; Which shall instarre the needle and the trayle. 1633Ford Love's Sacr. iv. ii, Our heart is high instarr'd in brighter spheres. 1855Bailey Mystic, etc. 100 Grim-tuskéd boar..Whom ancient myths in the heavenly north instarred.
2. To set or adorn with or as with stars; to stud with stars or brilliants.
1652Benlowes Theoph. i. lxix, Those rayes enstarre the duskie Parts. 1715–20Pope Iliad xvii. 55 The shining circlets of his golden hair..Instarr'd with gems and gold. 1824J. H. Wiffen Tasso xiv. xxxix, The rich flood did all its banks instar With precious stones, enchanting to the sight.
Hence instarred |ɪnˈstɑːd|, ppl. a., set with stars.
1888‘C. E. Craddock’ (Mrs. Murfree) Despot Broomsedge Cove vii. (1889) 117 The thickly instarred, moonless sky.
▪ II. instar, n. Ent.|ˈɪnstɑː(r)|
[mod.L. (L. H. Fischer Orthoptera Europæa (1853) I. 37), a. L. instar form, figure, likeness.]
Any of the stages in the life of an insect or other arthropod between successive ecdyses, including the stage between hatching from the egg and the first ecdysis; also (and orig.), an individual arthropod at a particular stage.
1895D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. v. 158 It may be well to adopt a term suggested by Fischer, and call the Insect as it appears at hatching the first instar, what it is as it emerges from the first ecdysis the second instar, and so on. 1925A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. II. 176 The intervals between the ecdyses are known as stages or stadia, and the form assumed by an insect during a particular stadium is termed an instar. 1932Metcalf & Flint Fund. Insect Life vi. 156 The molts occurring during the growing period divide this life stage..into a number of sharply separated sizes or steps that are called instars. 1964R. M. & J. W. Fox Introd. Compar. Ent. viii. 268 Most spiders provide a cocoon in which the first two instars are spent in passive existence. 1970Nature 24 Oct. 382/1 In Jamaica the fifth instar larvae of the New World hawkmoth..exhibit four basic colours. |