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starless, a.|ˈstɑːlɪs|
[-less.]
1. Destitute of stars or starlight; having no stars visible.
1390Gower Conf. III. 119 This Bole is ek with sterres set, Thurgh whiche he hath hise hornes knet Unto the tail of Aries, So is he noght ther sterreles. 1638Cowley Love's Riddle i, Though I were blacker then a starlesse night. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 425. 1728 Mallet Excursion i. 288 Night by Night, beneath the starless Dusk. 1818Byron Mazeppa v, With starless skies my canopy. 1877‘Rita’ Vivienne iii. ix, The sky was black and starless.
2. In nonce-uses.
a. Having no star or badge of honour on the breast.
b. Not made into a star, having no star named after oneself.
c. Not born under a good or favourable star, luckless.
1814Byron Frag. Ep. T. Moore, The Czar..wore but a starless blue coat. 1853D. Jerrold Chron. Clovernook Wks. 1864 IV. 403 Bacchus,..with all his great bounty, is starless and unhonoured. 1873Dixon Two Queens I. Pref., Two crowned and starless women.
Hence ˈstarlessly adv., ˈstarlessness.
1842Tait's Mag. IX. 726 Night sternly and starlessly appears. 1888Meredith Poems, Hard Weather 103 Nor in her starlessness of night Peruse her with the craven nerve. |