2. A partial inclosure made by a wall or trees, to serve as a shelter for sheep or cattle. [Prov. Eng. &
Scot.]
Stellar
(Stel"lar Stel"la*ry) a. [L. stellaris, fr. stella a star. See Star.]
1. Of or pertaining to stars; astral; as, a stellar figure; stellary orbs.
[These soft fires] in part shed down
Their stellar virtue.
Milton. 2. Full of stars; starry; as, stellar regions.
Stellate
(Stel"late Stel"la*ted) a. [L. stellatus, p. p. of stellare to set or cover with stars, from stella a
star. See Stellar.]
1. Resembling a star; pointed or radiated, like the emblem of a star.
2. (Bot.) Starlike; having similar parts radiating from a common center; as, stellate flowers.
Stellation
(Stel*la"tion) n. Radiation of light. [Obs.]
Stelled
(Stelled) a. [See Stell to place.] Firmly placed or fixed. [Obs.] "The stelled fires" [the stars].
Shak. [In this passage by some defined as "starry," as if from stellatus.]
Steller
(Stel"ler) n. [After Geo. W. Steller, a German naturalist.] (Zoöl) The rytina; — called also stellerine.
Stellerid
(Stel"ler*id) n. [L. stella a star.] (Zoöl.) A starfish.
Stellerida
(||Stel*ler"i*da) n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes
and ophiurans.
Stelleridan
(Stel*ler"i*dan Stel`ler*id"e*an) n. (Zoöl.) A starfish, or brittle star.
Stelliferous
(Stel*lif"er*ous) a. [L. stellifer; stella star + ferre to bear.] Having, or abounding with,
stars.
Stelliform
(Stel"li*form) a. [L. stella a star + -form.] Like a star; star-shaped; radiated.
Stellify
(Stel"li*fy) v. t. [L. stella a star + -fy.] To turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to place
among the stars, or in heaven. [Obs. or R.] B. Jonson.
Stellion
(Stel"lion) n. [L. stellio a newt having starlike spots on its back, fr. stella a star.] (Zoöl.) A
lizard common about the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive- green, shaded with
black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim, and star lizard.
Stellionate
(Stel"lion*ate) n. [L. stellionatus cozenage, trickery, fr. stellio a newt, a crafty, knavish person.]
(Scots & Roman Law) Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; — chiefly applied to sales of
the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc.
Erskine.
Stellular
(Stel"lu*lar) a. [L. stellula, dim. of stella a star.]
1. Having the shape or appearance of little stars; radiated.
2. Marked with starlike spots of color.
Stellulate
(Stel"lu*late) a. (Bot.) Minutely stellate.
