单词 | star-bearing |
释义 | > as lemmasstar-bearing b. Objective and locative. With participles, as star-bearing, star-wearing, adjs., etc.; with agent or verbal nouns, as star-counting, star-watcher, etc. ΚΠ eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 177 Epicurii : up on þæm rodore þara steorsceawera. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads iv. 54 Heauens starre-bearing hill [Gk. οὐρανῷ ἀστερόεντι]. 1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Æneis (1684) iv. 204 My Reputation and Star-climbing Fame [L. qua sola sidera adibam, fama]. 1743 R. Blair Grave 17 The Star-surveying Sage. 1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Prometheus Chain'd in tr. Æschylus Tragedies 44 Passing those star-aspiring heights. 1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings I. iv. 30 Half-a-dozen star-wearing dukes, counts, and marquises. 1849 Athenæum 30 June 677/2 Mr. Lumley, resolute in star-chasing, has absolutely succeeded in luring Madame Rossi back. 1869 E. Dunkin Midnight Sky 5 The star-watcher at an Australian midnight. 1877 J. S. Blackie Wise Men Greece 351 The arts of field-measuring and star-measuring. 1904 Edinb. Rev. July 78 The pastoral star-watchers of Babylonian plains. 1972 A. Helm tr. G. D. Roth Amateur Astronomer & his Telescope i. 22 A pair of binoculars can be used successfully for certain aspects of stellar astronomy, such as star-counting. 2015 Space Daily (Nexis) 1 Mar. Herschel was able to look at the far-infrared light of distant star-forming regions unfiltered by Earth's atmosphere. < as lemmas |
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