shot starn.
1. A shooting star.
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1633 T. Bancroft Gluttons Feauer sig. C1 (Like a shot starre,) from prides high turrets throwne To Stygian deepes.
1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 134 As shot stars fall, She fled ere I could groan for mercy.
2. The alga Nostoc commune, popularly supposed to be of meteoric origin.
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1811 S. McSkimin Hist. Carrickfergus 202 Common Heron..is believed to disgorge that gelatinous substance called Shot-star.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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