Crossword clues for starred
starred
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Starling \Star"ling\ (-l[i^]ng), n. [OE. sterlyng, a dim. of OE. stare, AS. st[ae]r; akin to AS. stearn, G. star, staar, OHG. stara, Icel. starri, stari, Sw. stare, Dan. st[ae]r, L. sturnus. Cf. Stare a starling.]
(Zo["o]l.) Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera. The European starling ( Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra.
(Zo["o]l.) A California fish; the rock trout.
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A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support; -- called also sterling.
Rose-colored starling. (Zo["o]l.) See Pastor.
Wiktionary
Having a star or stars. v
(en-past of: star)
WordNet
n. (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz]
any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night
a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem
a performer who receives prominent billing [syn: headliner]
a star-shaped character * used in printing [syn: asterisk]
the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub [syn: star topology]
adj. marked with an asterisk; "the starred items" [syn: asterisked]
See star
Usage examples of "starred".
Relayer uniform besported a V-shaped embroidery from shoulder to waist to shoulder in the colors of the House, and epaulets starred to indicate squadron status.
The pale blossoms starred the glades and the sides of the dells, clung to tree-roots, and climbed into crannies of the grey whinstone rock.
The spoof starred Damon, Algis Budrys, and Ted Cogswell, among others.
Or was her heavenhood a kind of prize for authorship, as Delphinus had been starred by Poseidon for his winning speeches?
Flowers starred the grainfields and meadows, thick along the sides of the rutted dirt trace.
Spring flowers starred the sides of the road, daffodils and cosmos and the first tangled roses.
The little dog was a glimmering shape that danced ahead of me, and white flowerets starred the track where she had passed.
Our way led along a winding path between banked masses of softly radiant blooms, groups of feathery ferns whose plumes were starred with fragrant white and blue flowerets, slender creepers swinging from the branches of the strangely trunked trees, bearing along their threads orchid-like blossoms both delicately frail and gorgeously flamboyant.
The long line of palaces down the Canal Grande shone back from the breast of the water, starred with lights, repeated again and again in the rippling surface.
On his forehead was a pair of goggles, the perspex starred as though struck with a hammer.
He, too, wrote thrilling accounts of their underwater adventures and even starred in a Hollywood movie called Titans of the Deep, featuring a bathysphere and many exciting and largely fictionalized encounters with aggressive giant squid and the like.
The fields were starred with violet camass, blue-flag and golden mariposa lily, and still dotted with a thinned-out scattering of huge oaks that gave the whole valley the look of a great park.
With a crash of brass instruments, a marching band began, and the street was suddenly filled with bright silken flags, barred, starred, snapping and furling in the thunder-wind.
The first, driven by a sergeant, carried the starred plate of a [[brigadier general]], and Pickering saw Brigadier General H.
As if to underline that they broke out into another sunlit meadow, starred with orange California poppy, yellow goldfields, purple lupine and dense mats of cream-white yarrow thick among the tall grass.