- 4. Eminent person (particularly an eminent actor).
Starboard, n. (Naut.) Right-hand side (of a vessel, to a person looking forward).
Starboard, a. (Naut.) Right.
Starch, a. See Starched.
Starched, a. Stiff, precise, formal, prim, rigid, punctilious, ceremonious, starchy, affectedly exact.
Starch-sugar, n. Glucose, grape-sugar.
Stare, v. n. Gaze, gloat, look intently, gaze earnestly.
Star-finch, n. Redstart (Phœnicura ruticilla).
Star-fish, n. Sea-star, five-finger.
Star-flower, n.
- 1. Star-of-Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum).
- 2. Chickweed, starwort.
Stark, a.
- 1. Stiff, rigid.
- 2. Mere, simple, sheer, bare, downright, gross, unmistakable, pure, entire, absolute.
Stark, ad. Wholly, entirely, completely, fully, absolutely.
Star-like, a.
- 1. Bright, lustrous, twinkling.
- 2. Radiated, stellate, stellated, stellular.
- 3. Bright, illustrious.
Star-monger, n. Astrologer, fortune-teller.
Starry, a.
- 1. Full of stars, star-spangled, stellar, stellary.
- 2. Stellar, stellary, astral.