Word Meanings - INSTAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To stud as with stars. "A golden throne instarred with gems." J. Barlow.

Related words: (words related to INSTAR)

• GOLDEN
  1. Made of gold; consisting of gold. 2. Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain. 3. Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions. Golden age. The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of
• THRONELESS
  Having no throne.
• GOLDEN-EYE
  A duck , found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America is less common.
• THRONE
  A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen. Milton. Great Sire! whom thrones celestial ceaseless sing. Young. (more info) 1. A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince,
• GOLDEN STATE
  California; -- a nickname alluding to its rich gold deposits.
• GOLDEN-ROD
  A tall herb , bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago. Golden-rod tree , a shrub (Bosea Yervamora), a native of the Canary Isles.
• STARSHOOT
  See NOSTOC
• GOLDENLY
  In golden terms or a golden manner; splendidly; delightfully. Shak.
• STARSHINE
  The light of the stars. The starshine lights upon our heads. R. L. Stevenson.
• STARSTONE
  Asteriated sapphire.
• UNTHRONE
  To remove from, or as from, a throne; to dethrone. Milton.
• DISTHRONE
  To dethrone.
• DETHRONEMENT
  Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.
• DETHRONER
  One who dethrones.
• DETHRONE
  To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity. "The Protector was dethroned." Hume.
• REINTHRONE
  See REëNTHRONE
• INTHRONE
  See ENTHRONE
• PEACOCK THRONE
  1. A famous throne formerly of the kings of Delhi, India, but since 1739, when it was carried off by Nadir Shah, held by the shahs of Persia ; -- so called from its bearing a fully expanded peacock's tail done in gems.
• REENTHRONE
  To enthrone again; to replace on a throne.
• ENTHRONEMENT
  The act of enthroning, or state of being enthroned.
• REENTHRONEMENT
  A second enthroning.
• DISENTHRONE
  To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority. Milton.