'Starry ray' definitions:

Definition of 'Starry ray'

From: GCIDE

Definition of 'Starry ray'

From: GCIDE
  • Starry \Star"ry\ (st[aum]r"r[y^]), a.
  • 1. Abounding with stars; adorned with stars. "Above the starry sky." --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame. [1913 Webster]
  • Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influence? --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate. [1913 Webster]
  • Starry ray (Zool.), a European skate (Raia radiata); -- so called from the stellate bases of the dorsal spines. [1913 Webster]