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STA'RKLY, adv. Stiffly ; strongly. 
As fast lock’d up in sleep as guiltless labour. 
When it lies starkly in the traveller’s bones. S/iakspeare. 
STARKS, a post township of the United States, in Somer¬ 
set county, Maine; 200 miles north-north-east of Boston. 
Population 828. 
STARKSBOROUGH, a post township of the United 
States, in Addison county, Vermont; 28 miles west of 
Montpelier. Population 726. 
STA'RLESS, adj. Having no light of stars. 
A boundless continent. 
Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night. 
Starless expos’d. Milton. 
Cato might give them furlo’s for another world ; 
But we, like sentries, are obliged to stand 
In starless nights, and wait th’ appointed hour. Dry den. 
ST ATI-LIGHT, s. Lustre of the stars. 
Now they never meet in grove or green. 
By founntain clear or spangled starlight sheen. Shahspcare. 
Nor walk by moon, 
Or glittering star-light without thee is sweet. Milton. 
They danced by starlight and the friendly moon. 
Dry den. 
STA'R-LIGHT, adj. Lighted by the stars; 
Owls, that mark the setting sun, declare 
A star-light evening and a morning fair. Dryden. 
STA'R-LIKE, adj. Stellated ; having various points 
resembling a star in lustre.—Nightshade tree with a wooden 
stem, green-leaved, and has star-like flowers. Mortimer .— 
Bright; illustrious.—The having turned many to righteousness 
shall confer a star-like and immortal brightness. Boyle. 
These reasons mov’d her star-like husband’s heart; 
But still he held his purpose to depart. Dryden. 
STA'RLING, s. [ptsejihg. Sax.; sturnus, Lat.] A bird; 
a stare; which is sometimes taught to talk as the magpie. 
See Stare. 
I will have a starling taught to speak 
Nothing but Mortimer, and give it him, 
To keep his anger still in motion. Shakspeare. 
A defence to the piers of bridges: probably from some 
old root similar to that of stare. 
STARODUB, a town of European Russia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Czernigov. It has 4000 inhabitants, and a trade in 
hemp, potash, and cattle. It has also two well frequented 
annual fairs; 53 miles north-north-west of Novgorod-Sie- 
verskoe, and 110 north-north-east of Czernigov. 
STAROI BUCKOW, a town in the west of European 
Russia, in the government of Mohilev, on the Dnieper; 17 
miles south-by-west of Mohilev. 
STAROI OSKOL. See Oskol Starox. 
STAROSOL, a small town of Austrian Poland ; 50 miles 
south west of . Lemberg. 
STAROVELSK, a small town of the south of European 
Russia, in the government of Slobodsk-Ukraine, on the river 
Aidar. 
STARPA'VED, adj. Studded with stars.—In progress 
through the road of heaven starpav'd. Milton. 
STAllPROO'F, adj. Impervious to starlight. Unused. 
Under the shady roof 
Of branching elm starproof. Milton. 
STARHEAD, s. Doctrine of the stars; astronomy. 
.(Egyptian wisards old. 
Which in starhead were wont have best insight. Spenser. 
STA'RRED, adj. Influenced by the stars with respect to 
fortune. 
My third comfort, 
Starr'd most unluckily, is from my- breast 
Hal’d out to murder. Shakspeare. 
Decorated with stars. 
That starr'd Ethiop queen, that strove 
To set her beauty’s praise above 
The sea-nymphs. Milton. 
STA'RRING, adj. [stellans , Lat., from star. Dr. John¬ 
son.—- 11 I doubt if there be any such word in the language as 
starring. The true word, in the passage from Crashaw 
given by Dr. Johnson, is staring ; and I wonder that the 
sense did not convince him that starring could be only the 
mistake of the copyist. I shall leave Dr. Johnson’s definition 
of starring to be fitted with an example by others, if such a 
word there be. And here I will give the forcible lines of 
Crashaw, which are a translation from the Italian of Marino: 
“ His eyes, the sullen dens of death and night, 
“ Startle the dull air with a dismal red; 
“ Such his fell glances as the fatal light 
“ Of staring comets, that look kingdoms dead.” 
See Crashaw’s Poems, edit, 1670. Todd.] Shining with 
light; blazing with sparkling light. 
STA'RRY, adj. Decorated with stars; abounding with 
stars. 
Daphne wond’ring mounts on high. 
Above the clouds, above the starry sky! Pope. 
Consisting of stars; stellar. 
Heaven and earth’s compacted frame. 
And flowing waters, and the starry flame. 
And both the radiant lights, one common soul 
Inspires and feeds, and animates the whole. Dryden. 
Resembling stars.—Teas had dimm’d the lustre of her 
starry eyes. Shakspeare. 
STARSHOOT, s. An emission from a star.—I have seen 
a good quantity of that jelly, by the vulgar called a star- 
shoot, as if it remained-upon the extinction of a falling star. 
Boyle. 
STARSTON, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 1J mile 
north-north-west of Harleston. Population 418. 
STA'RSTONE, s. A kind of stone, having joints re¬ 
sembling the form of a star.—Hereabout are found star- 
stones ; but I was not then advised of it. Bay 
To START, v. n. [Sax. jxypan, to move. Scott, and 
Mr. H. Tooke. Our word was, anciently, sterf.] To feel 
a sudden and involuntary twitch or motion of the animal 
frame, on apprehension of danger.— Starting is an appre¬ 
hension of the thing feared, and in that kind it is a motion 
of shrinking; and likewise an inquisition, in the beginning, 
what the matter should be, and in that kind it is a motion of 
erection ; and therefore, when a man would listen suddenly 
to any thing, he starteth ; for the starting is an erection 
of the spirits to attend. Bacon. 
A shape appear’d 
Bending to look on me: I started back; 
It started back. 
To rise suddenly; commonly with up. —They 
up beheld the heavy sight. Dryden. 
Might Dryden bless once more our eyes, 
New Blacfcmores and new Milbourns must arise; 
Nay, should great Homer lift his awful head, 
Zoilus again would start up from the dead. 
To move with sudden quickness. 
She at the summons roll’d her eyes around. 
And snatch’d the starting serpents from the ground. Pope • 
To shrink; to winch. 
With tryal fire touch me his finger end ; 
If he be chaste, the flame will back descend. 
And turn him to no pain; but if he start. 
It is the flesh of a corrupted heart. Shakspeare. 
To deviate. 
Th’ old drudging sun from his long-beaten way. 
Shall at thy voice start and misguide the day; 
The jocund orbs shall break their measur’d pace. 
And stubborn poles change their allotted place. Cowley. 
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Alilton. 
starting 
Pope. 
