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ˈstar-gazer
1. One who gazes at the stars. Often used as a familiar or contemptuous substitute for astrologer or astronomer.
1560Bible (Geneva) Isa. xlvii. 13 Let now the astrologers, the starre gasers & pronosticatours stand vp. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. 62 These star-gaisers, who teach that man is drawne to good or euill by the..influence of stars. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. viii. §5. 72 His Astrologers and Star-gazers forwarding him with their vaine predictions. a1700Evelyn Diary 29 Apr. 1652, Knavish and ignorant star-gazers. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. iii. (1840) 73 As the eminent Dr. H― may be called the king's astronomer, or as the more eminent Flamstead usually called himself, the king's star-gazer. 1842Emerson Transcendentalist Wks. (Bohn) II. 280 The materialist..mocks at..star-gazers and dreamers. 1876Chambers Astron. p. v, The mere star-gazer who is an Astronomer simply in the respect that he is the owner of a telescope.
2. The fish Uranoscopus scaber, which has eyes set on the top of the head and directed vertically; also, any fish of this genus or of the family Uranoscopidæ.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 225 Starre-gazer. Vranoscopus. 1740R. Brookes Art of Angling ii. lxviii. 189 The Star-Gazer..is often taken in the Mediterranean Sea. 1881Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 92 The best known genus, Uranoscopus, comprises about ten species, which are familiarly termed star-gazers. 1882Jordan & Gilbert Syn. Fishes N. Amer. 627 Uranoscopidæ (The Star Gazers).
b. Applied to other fishes: see quots.
1863Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. III. 330 Stargazer, Anableps tetrophthalmus. Ibid. 331 The Stargazer is a native of Surinam. 1878A. M. Ross Catal. Mammals etc. Canada 11/1 Uranidea gracilis, Little Star Gazer.
3. slang. (See quots.)
1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T., Star gazer, a horse who throws up his head. 1831Youatt Horse ix. 156 The back of the head being thus pulled back,..the horse..will become what is technically called a star-gazer.
4. Naut. (See quots.)
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 630 Sky-scraper, a triangular sail set above the skysail; if square it would be a moon⁓sail, and if set above that, a star-gazer, &c. 1883Clark Russell Sailors' Lang. 137 Star-gazer, an imaginary sail, like sky-scraper. |