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star-like, a. and adv.
A. adj.
1. Resembling a star; shining like a star.
1591Harington Orl. Fur. xxxv. ii, Those two starrlike eyn. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Estoille, Pierre d'estoilles, a..Carbuncle, wherein..many golden, sparkling, and starre-like drops may be discerned. 1652[see sky-like]. 1860Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 3 This touch-wood..will shine with a star-like light. 1870Bryant Iliad xvi. 173 The breastplate of the swift æacides With star-like points.
b. transf. and fig.
1607Shakes. Timon v. i. 66 What, to you, Whose Starre⁓like Noblenesse gaue life and influence To their whole being? 1833Tennyson Dream Fair Women xxiii, She turning on my face The star-like sorrows of immortal eyes. 1883Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. II. 274 With a certain star-like radiance and grace. 1884Christian World 21 Feb. 139/5 This star-like serenity in all the tumult of his stormy life.
c. Countless as the stars. nonce-use.
1630[see sand-like s.v. sand n.2 9 e].
2. Shaped like a conventional star; stellate, radiate.
1611Cotgr., Estoillé, the Lizard Stellio, whose necke is full of starre-like spots. 1633Johnson Gerarde's Herbal ii. xcvi. (1636) 418 At the top whereof stand many pretty starre-like skinny seed-vessels. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Hair, The quills of the hedge-hog and porcupine have somewhat of a pith in a starlike form. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xxxiv, A soft turf,..spangled with a star-like yellow blossom. 1906Hickson in Hartog's Protozoa etc. (Camb. Nat. Hist.) 332 The position of the zooids in the colony is indicated only by star-like holes.
B. adv. Like a star.
1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, v. v. 47 So shall she leaue her Blessednesse to One..Who, from the sacred Ashes of her Honour Shall Star-like rise. a1678Chalkhill Thealma & Clearchus 104 So Star-like bright they shone. 1725Bradley's Family Dict. s.v. Saffron (Bastard), This Plant produces staring Heads..with some Leaves, opening underneath Star-like. 1842Tennyson Sir Galahad 48 As down dark tides the glory slides, And star-like mingles with the stars. |