shooting starn.
1. A meteor resembling a star, that darts across the sky. (Cf. falling star n.)
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1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. iv. 19 I see thy glory like a shooting starre Fall to the base earth. View more context for this quotation
1607 T. Tomkis Lingua ii. vi The shooting Starres Which in an eye-bright euening seem'd to fall.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 556 Thither came Uriel, gliding..swift as a shooting Starr In Autumn thwarts the night. View more context for this quotation
1857 Rep. Brit. Assoc. i. 152 This instance, the rare one of an ascending shooting star.
1872 R. A. Proctor Ess. Astron. xi. 151 The November shooting-stars.
2. U.S. A Western name for the American Cowslip, Dodecatheon Meadia.
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1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (ed. 2) 272 Dodecatheon Meadia... In the West called Shooting-Star.
1882 Garden 13 May 324/2 I send you..two varieties of Dodecatheon. These ‘Shooting Stars’, as they are called, are very effective.
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