Star"ry (?), a.

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 philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influence?
Sir W. Scott.

3.

Shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes.

4.

Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate.

Starry ray Zool., a European skate (Raita radiata); -- so called from the stellate bases of the dorsal spines.

 

© Webster 1913.