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.