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shooting star
[shooting ppl. a.; cf. G. schiessender stern.]
1. A meteor resembling a star, that darts across the sky. (Cf. falling star.)
1593Shakes. Rich. II, ii. iv. 19. 1607 Lingua ii. vi, The shooting Starres Which in an eye-bright euening seem'd to fall. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 557 Thither came Uriel, gliding..swift as a shooting Starr In Autumn thwarts the night. 1857Rep. Brit. Assoc. i. 152 This instance, the rare one of an ascending shooting star. 1872Proctor Ess. Astron. xi. 151 The November shooting-stars.
attrib.1886Ball Story of Heavens xviii. (1897) 378 The periodic shooting star shower known as the Leonids.
2. U.S. A Western name for the American Cowslip, Dodecatheon Meadia.
1856A. Gray Man. Bot. 272 Dodecatheon Meadia... In the West called Shooting-Star. 1882Garden 13 May 324/2, I send you..two varieties of Dodecatheon. These ‘Shooting Stars’, as they are called, are very effective. |