Word Meanings - OUTSTARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To excel or overcome in staring; to face down. I would outstare the sternest eyes that look. Shak.

Related words: (words related to OUTSTARE)

• STAR-READ
  Doctrine or knowledge of the stars; star lore; astrology; astronomy. Which in star-read were wont have best insight. Spenser.
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• STARK
  stiff, strong, AS. stearc; akin to OS. starc strong, D. sterk, OHG. starc, starah, G. & Sw. stark, Dan. stærk, Icel. sterkr, Goth. gastaúrknan to become dried up, Lith. strëgti to stiffen, to freeze. 1. Stiff; rigid. Chaucer. Whose senses all
• STAR-CHAMBER
  An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed
• STARCHER
  One who starches.
• STARGASER
  Any one of several species of spiny-rayed marine fishes belonging to Uranoscopus, Astroscopus, and allied genera, of the family Uranoscopidæ. The common species of the Eastern United States are Astroscopus anoplus, and A. guttatus. So called from
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• STARCRAFT
  Astrology. Tennyson.
• STARPROOF
  Impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm. Milton.
• STARVELING
  One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment. Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. Shak.
• STAROSTY
  A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life. Brande & C.
• STARER
  One who stares, or gazes.
• STARRED
  1. Adorned or studded with stars; bespangled. 2. Influenced in fortune by the stars. My third comfort, Starred most unluckily. Shak.
• OVERCOMER
  One who overcomes.
• STARE
  The starling.
• STARTISH
  Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
• STAR-CROSSED
  Not favored by the stars; ill-fated. Shak. Such in my star-crossed destiny. Massinger.
• STARVEDLY
  In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously. Some boasting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year after. Bp. Hall.
• STARINGLY
  With a staring look.
• STARCHED
  1. Stiffened with starch. 2. Stiff; precise; formal. Swift.
• DAY-STAR
  1. The morning star; the star which ushers in the day. A dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. 2 Peter i. 19. 2. The sun, as the orb of day. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping
• BASTARDLY
  Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. -- adv.
• POLESTAR
  1. Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North. 2. A guide or director.
• INSTAR
  To stud as with stars. "A golden throne instarred with gems." J. Barlow.
• COSTARD
  and meaning orig., a ribbed apple, from the ribs or angles on its 1. An apple, large and round like the head. Some consist more of air than water . . . ; others more of water than wind, as your costards and pomewaters. Muffett. 2. The head; --
• SEPIOSTARE
  The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.
• BUSTARD
  A bird of the genus Otis. Note: The great or bearded bustard is the largest game bird in Europe. It inhabits the temperate regions of Europe and Asia, and was formerly common in Great Britain. The little bustard (O. tetrax) inhabits eastern Europe
• EARTHSTAR
  A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
• WHITE MUSTARD
  A kind of mustard with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.
• BASTARD
  F. b, a packsaddle used as a bed by the muleteers + -ard. OF. fils de bast son of the packsaddle; as the muleteers were accustomed to use their saddles for beds in the inns. See Cervantes, 1. A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of
• LODESTAR
  See LOADSTAR
• ARISTARCH
  A severe critic. Knowles.
• ARISTARCHIAN
  Severely critical.