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starshine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Starshine \Star"shine`\ (-sh[imac]n`), n. The light of the stars. [R.]
The starshine lights upon our heads.
--R. L.
Stevenson.
Wiktionary
n. (context rare poetic English) starlight
Wikipedia
Starshine is the name of three fictional American comic book characters owned by the Marvel Comics and appearing in that company's Marvel Universe.
The first was an alien woman named Landra who first appeared in Rom: Spaceknight #14 (1980) by writer Bill Mantlo and artist Sal Buscema. The second was an Earth girl named Brandy Clark, who first appeared in Rom #1 (1979) again by Mantlo and Buscema. The third was the Galadorian Anarra, one of the Third Generation Spaceknights introduced in Jim Starlin's Spaceknights mini-series.
The STARSHINE (Student Tracked Atmospheric Research Satellite Heuristic International Networking Experiment) series of three artificial satellites were student participatory missions sponsored by the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL).
Starshine may refer to:
- STARSHINE, acronym for Student Tracked Atmospheric Research Satellite Heuristic International Networking Experiment, a series of three artificial satellites
- Starshine (comics), name of two fictional American comic book characters appearing in Marvel Universe
- Starshine Records, a late 1960s, now defunct independent record label
- The almost imperceptible glow created by a night sky full of bright stars on a clear, moonless night. Usually only seen far from any urban areas. It is also called Starlight.
Usage examples of "starshine".
And sometimes, on clouded nights when there wasn't even much starshine to guide them, went out scogger-hunting in the velvet dark (stumbling over bushes and hillocks, with ultraviolet lights that made the grubs' epicuticles fluoresce so they looked like neon-lit cockroaches in the night) and broiled their catch for breakfast.
Think of the change, and you will no more wonder that there should be something awful about the very look of a mountain: from the darkness - for where the light has nothing to shine upon, much the same as darkness - from the heat, from the endless tumult of boiling unrest - up, with a sudden heavenward shoot, into the wind, and the cold, and the starshine, and a cloak of snow that lies like ermine above the blue-green mail of the glaciers.