a comet.

A celestial object typically following a greatly elongated elliptical orbit around the sun and appearing, when in the inner solar system, as a…

A comet. Obsolete.

figurative. Anything resembling a besom in shape; spec. applied to a comet.

Having a hair-like appendage; = crinite, adj. Only in crinital star: a comet.

Anything which blazes or shines; as a comet (obsolete), or (familiarly) a very bright day.

Humorously applied to a comet. Obsolete. rare.

poetic name for a comet supposed to resemble a sword.

a comet whose orbit passes close to the sun.

A small icy body in a planetary or protosolar system which is capable of growing by accretion into a comet; a small comet.