Word Meanings - STARRED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Adorned or studded with stars; bespangled. 2. Influenced in fortune by the stars. My third comfort, Starred most unluckily. Shak.
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- COMFORTLESS
Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n. - ADORNINGLY
By adorning; decoratively. - ADORNATION
Adornment. - COMFORTABLY
In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2. - THIRDLY
In the third place. Bacon. - FORTUNELESS
Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser. - COMFORT
1. To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate. Wyclif. God's own testimony . . . doth not a little comfort and confirm the same. Hooker. 2. To assist or help; to aid. I . . . can not help the noble chevalier: God comfort him in this - STUDDERY
A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud. King Henry the Eighth erected a noble studdery. Holinshed. - STARRED
1. Adorned or studded with stars; bespangled. 2. Influenced in fortune by the stars. My third comfort, Starred most unluckily. Shak. - INFLUENCIVE
Tending toinfluence; influential. - ADORNMENT
An adorning; an ornament; a decoration. - COMFORTABLE
1. Strong; vigorous; valiant. Wyclif. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be comfortable; hold death a while at the arm's end. Shak. 2. Serviceable; helpful. Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her. - BESPANGLE
To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper. - STARRY
1. Abounding with stars; adorned with stars. "Above the starry sky." Pope. 2. Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame. Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and - THIRD
third, G. dritte, Icel. , Goth. , L. tertius, Gr. t. See Three, and 1. Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the thirdhour in the day. "The third night." Chaucer. 2. Constituting or being one of three equal - ADORNER
He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier. - INFLUENCE
Induction. Syn. -- Control; persuasion; ascendency; sway; power; authority; supremacy; mastery; management; restraint; character; reputation; prestige. (more info) 1. A flowing in or upon; influx. God hath his influence into the very essence of - STUDDING SAIL
A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of Sail. Toten. - COMFORTABLENESS
State of being comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2. - THIRDINGS
The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire. - MISFORTUNED
Unfortunate. - DISCOMFORTABLE
1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n. - WHEEL OF FORTUNE
A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules. - MISCOMFORT
Discomfort. - RECOMFORTLESS
Without comfort. - BEFORTUNE
To befall. I wish all good befortune you. Shak.