Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
star .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A star.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
star .
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Examples
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And this sterre, that is toward the north, that wee clepen the lode sterre, ne apperethe not to hem.
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Now schulle ze knowe, that azen the Transmontayne, is the tother sterre, that is clept Antartyke; as I have seyd before.
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Now schulle ze knowe, that azen the Transmontayne, is the tother sterre, that is clept Antartyke; as I have seyd before.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And this sterre, that is toward the north, that wee clepen the lode sterre, ne apperethe not to hem.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Now schulle ze knowe, that azen the Transmontayne, is the tother sterre, that is clept Antartyke; as I have seyd before.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And this sterre, that is toward the north, that wee clepen the lode sterre, ne apperethe not to hem.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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After goynge be see and be londe, toward this contree, of that I have spoke, and to other yles and londes bezonde that contree, I have founden the sterre Antartyk of 33 degrees of heghte, and mo mynutes.
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And besyde that, is the place where the sterre fell, that ladde the 3 kynges, Jaspar, Melchior and Balthazar: but men of
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And in tho yles men seen ther no sterres so clerly as in other places: for there apperen no sterres, but only o clere sterre, that men clepen
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In that lond, ne in many othere bezonde that, no man may see the sterre transmontane, that is clept the sterre of the see, that is unmevable, and that is toward the northe, that we clepen the lode sterre.
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