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pole-star|ˈpəʊlstɑː(r)|
[f. pole n.2 + star n.]
1. The star α Ursæ Minoris, now within 1° of the northern pole of the heavens; also called Polar star, and Polaris.
1555Eden Decades 32 The starre which we caule the pole starre or northe starre..is not the very poynte of the pole Artyke. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 94 The Pole-starre..in the tip of the little Beares taile. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 515 We find, that the remarkable star called the pole-star is more or less elevated, according to the different parts of the earth from which we take our view. 1946Dylan Thomas Deaths & Entrances 24 Your pole-star neighbour, sun of another street, Will dive up to his tears. 1955Sci. News Let. 27 Aug. 138/1 This group [sc. Ursa Minor] contains the little dipper, with Polaris, the pole star, at the end of the handle. 1979R. Laidlaw Lion is Rampant xiii. 108 As long as I could see The Plough I could get a fix on the Pole Star and check my direction.
2. fig. That which serves as a guide or director, a lodestar, a governing principle; a centre of attraction; a cynosure.
1604T. Wright Passions iv. ii. §3. 147 Pleasure is the pole-stare of all inordinat passions. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. vi. §19 Common-sense alone is the pole-star by which mankind ought to steer. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 387/2 His moral pole-star was duty. 1890Hall Caine Bondman ii. xiii, The pole-star of my life is gone out. |