Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The light from the stars.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The light proceeding from the stars.
- noun Hence A faint or feeble light.
- Lighted by the stars, or by the stars only.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The light given by the stars.
- adjective Lighted by the stars, or by the stars only.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Light emitted fromstars other than theSun
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the light of the stars
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Examples
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Phrynus looked down at his bronze hand glowing in starlight, restless, itching now with lust.
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She was born of the thin starlight and the brittle dawn-light, in the morning of the world, and she is the one woman of all women to me.
CHAPTER XXXI 2010
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I would argue that the electromagnetic spectrum of starlight is also a code which can be decoded to discover, among other things, the chemical composition of the star that emitted the light.
Attached to Strings 2009
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She was born of the thin starlight and the brittle dawn-light before the sun ...
CHAPTER X 2010
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More beautiful than starlight is the face of the lover when the Voice and the Vision enfold him.
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I would argue that the electromagnetic spectrum of starlight is also a code which can be decoded to discover, among other things, the chemical composition of the star that emitted the light.
Attached to Strings 2009
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Dr. Udry said he and Dr. Sasselov would be observing the Gliese system with a Canadian space telescope named Most, to see if there are any dips in starlight caused by the new planet.
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Twilight seems like a great book. starlight is a really good book too! on 21 Apr 2006 at 7: 39 pm Gingertail hey lemonstripe where did u see that starlight cd???????????
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Also there are YEC cosmolgies that explain starlight and time:
Courting the Theists 2005
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She was born of the thin starlight and the brittle dawn-light, in the morning of the world, and she is the one woman of all women to me.
treeseed commented on the word starlight
a town in Pennsylvania, USA
February 26, 2008
rfb commented on the word starlight
Pat Nixon's Secret Service code name...
November 15, 2008