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starer|ˈstɛərə(r)|
[f. stare v. + -er1.]
1. A person who stares.
1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. i. v. 116 The vulgar astonishment of an unlettered Starer. 1711Steele Spect. No. 20 ⁋2 A kind of Men, whom I choose to call Starers, that without any Regard to Time, Place, or Modesty, disturb a large Company with their impertinent Eyes. 1767S. Paterson Another Trav. I. 338 Exhibiting their mummeries..to thousands of stupid starers. 1796F. Burney Camilla IV. 218 They regularly drew forth either the master or the man to make another starer at their singular proceedings. 1865W. G. Palgrave Arabia I. 140 We passed down the street, lined with starers at the King and us. 1880Browning Dram. Idylls Ser. ii. Clive 154 I'll engage no glance was sent That way by a single starer.
2. pl. Eye-glasses with a long handle. colloq.
1904Mrs. A. Sidgwick Scenes Jewish Life 135 His mother put up her ‘starers’, and addressed Eva in French. 1905R. Broughton Waif's Progr. xi. 128 She sat with the ‘starers’ she had taken off lying in her lap. |