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Blazing star   /blˈeɪzɪŋ stɑr/   Listen
noun
Star  n.  
1.
One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae. "His eyen twinkled in his head aright, As do the stars in the frosty night." Note: The stars are distinguished as planets, and fixed stars. See Planet, Fixed stars under Fixed, and Magnitude of a star under Magnitude.
2.
The polestar; the north star.
3.
(Astrol.) A planet supposed to influence one's destiny; (usually pl.) a configuration of the planets, supposed to influence fortune. "O malignant and ill-brooding stars." "Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury."
4.
That which resembles the figure of a star, as an ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honor. "On whom... Lavish Honor showered all her stars."
5.
Specifically, a radiated mark in writing or printing; an asterisk (thus, *); used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc.
6.
(Pyrotechny) A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.
7.
A person of brilliant and attractive qualities, especially on public occasions, as a distinguished orator, a leading theatrical performer, etc. Note: Star is used in the formation of compound words generally of obvious signification; as, star-aspiring, star-bespangled, star-bestudded, star-blasting, star-bright, star-crowned, star-directed, star-eyed, star-headed, star-paved, star-roofed, star-sprinkled, star-wreathed.
Blazing star, Double star, Multiple star, Shooting star, etc. See under Blazing, Double, etc.
Nebulous star (Astron.), a small well-defined circular nebula, having a bright nucleus at its center like a star.
Star anise (Bot.), any plant of the genus Illicium; so called from its star-shaped capsules.
Star apple (Bot.), a tropical American tree (Chrysophyllum Cainito), having a milky juice and oblong leaves with a silky-golden pubescence beneath. It bears an applelike fruit, the carpels of which present a starlike figure when cut across. The name is extended to the whole genus of about sixty species, and the natural order (Sapotaceae) to which it belongs is called the Star-apple family.
Star conner, one who cons, or studies, the stars; an astronomer or an astrologer.
Star coral (Zool.), any one of numerous species of stony corals belonging to Astraea, Orbicella, and allied genera, in which the calicles are round or polygonal and contain conspicuous radiating septa.
Star cucumber. (Bot.) See under Cucumber.
Star flower. (Bot.)
(a)
A plant of the genus Ornithogalum; star-of-Bethlehem.
(b)
See Starwort (b).
(c)
An American plant of the genus Trientalis (Trientalis Americana).
Star fort (Fort.), a fort surrounded on the exterior with projecting angles; whence the name.
Star gauge (Ordnance), a long rod, with adjustable points projecting radially at its end, for measuring the size of different parts of the bore of a gun.
Star grass. (Bot.)
(a)
A small grasslike plant (Hypoxis erecta) having star-shaped yellow flowers.
(b)
The colicroot. See Colicroot.
Star hyacinth (Bot.), a bulbous plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla autumnalis); called also star-headed hyacinth.
Star jelly (Bot.), any one of several gelatinous plants (Nostoc commune, Nostoc edule, etc.). See Nostoc.
Star lizard. (Zool.) Same as Stellion.
Star-of-Bethlehem (Bot.), a bulbous liliaceous plant (Ornithogalum umbellatum) having a small white starlike flower.
Star-of-the-earth (Bot.), a plant of the genus Plantago (Plantago coronopus), growing upon the seashore.
Star polygon (Geom.), a polygon whose sides cut each other so as to form a star-shaped figure.
Stars and Stripes, a popular name for the flag of the United States, which consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternately red and white, and a union having, in a blue field, white stars to represent the several States, one for each. "With the old flag, the true American flag, the Eagle, and the Stars and Stripes, waving over the chamber in which we sit."
Star showers. See Shooting star, under Shooting.
Star thistle (Bot.), an annual composite plant (Centaurea solstitialis) having the involucre armed with stout radiating spines.
Star wheel (Mach.), a star-shaped disk, used as a kind of ratchet wheel, in repeating watches and the feed motions of some machines.
Star worm (Zool.), a gephyrean.
Temporary star (Astron.), a star which appears suddenly, shines for a period, and then nearly or quite disappears. These stars were supposed by some astronomers to be variable stars of long and undetermined periods. More recently, variations star in start intensity are classified more specifically, and this term is now obsolescent. See also nova. (Obsolescent)
Variable star (Astron.), a star whose brilliancy varies periodically, generally with regularity, but sometimes irregularly; called periodical star when its changes occur at fixed periods.
Water star grass (Bot.), an aquatic plant (Schollera graminea) with small yellow starlike blossoms.


adjective
Blazing  adj.  Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.
Blazing star.
(a)
A comet. (Obs.)
(b)
A brilliant center of attraction.
(c)
(Bot.) A name given to several plants; as, to Chamaelirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa; and Aletris farinosa, called also colicroot and star grass.





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"Blazing star" Quotes from Famous Books



... his Worlds in the Making—the conception that life is universally diffused, constantly emitted from all habitable worlds in the form of spores which traverse space for years and ages, the majority being ultimately destroyed by the heat of some blazing star, but some few finding a resting-place on globes which have reached the ...
— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt
... Ball then into a Sling, and the Wild-fire being Touched, throw it up as high as you can into the Air, and when the body of the Ball fires, it will appear to the Beholders like a fiery Globe, with a Stream or Blaze, like as if a Comet or Blazing Star were Ascending or Descending, according to its height ...
— The School of Recreation (1696 edition) • Robert Howlett
... ten, madam, which is a purifying o' the song: would God would serve the world so all the year! we'd find no fault with the tithe-woman, if I were the parson: one in ten, quoth 'a! an we might have a good woman born before every blazing star, or at an earthquake, 'twould mend the lottery well: a man may draw his heart out ere he ...
— All's Well That Ends Well • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... and we'll think he's hit the sawdust trail, or perhaps he wants to look pretty in his coffin. Huh! Give me that curry. You wash off his face a bit." Cuddy turned his aristocratic face away from the wet cloth and blew tremulously. Joey tapped the blazing star ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various
... he thought, would soon be tumbling out of their beds to begin another of their funny, serious days of trial and failure; to make ready for another night of forgetfulness, when their absurd little ant-hill should turn again away from the big blazing star. He sat a long time at the window, looking out to the east, where the light was showing; meditating on many idle, little matters, but conscious all the time of great power ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson
... evil; the Indented Tessel, or tessellated border, of the manifold blessings and comforts which constantly surround us, and which we hope to enjoy by a firm reliance on Divine Providence, which is hieroglyphically represented by the Blazing Star in the centre. ...
— Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason • George Thornburgh
... anchorage ground protected by an island. Alexander founded a city there, which he called by his own name. He perfected the harbor by artificial excavations and embankments. A lofty light-house was reared, which formed a landmark by day, and exhibited a blazing star by night to guide the galleys of the Mediterranean in. A canal was made to connect the port with the Nile, and warehouses were erected to contain the stores of merchandise. In a word, Alexandria became at ...
— Cleopatra • Jacob Abbott
... Crabbe, are melting fast from the field of our vision. The novels of Scott have put out his poetry. Even the splendid strains of Moore are fading into distance and dimness, except where they have been married to immortal music; and the blazing star of Byron himself is receding from its place of pride. We need say nothing of Milman, and Croly, and Atherstone, and Hood, and a legion of others, who, with no ordinary gifts of taste and fancy, have not so properly survived their fame, as been excluded by some hard fatality, from ...
— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin


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