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Starlike

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Star´like`    (~līk`)
a.1.Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers.
2.Shining; bright; illustrious.
The having turned many to righteousness shall confer a starlike and immortal brightness.
- Boyle.
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Adj.1.starlike - resembling a star; "they saw a starlike object in the sky"
starry - abounding with or resembling stars; "a starry night"; "starry illumination"


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I looked at little Weena sleeping beside me, her face white and starlike under the stars, and forthwith dismissed the thought.
The Time Machine by Wells, H.G. View in context
The garden is chiefly laid out in lawn, formed of the sod of the hills, with herbage short and soft as moss, full of its own peculiar flowers, tiny and starlike, imbedded in the minute embroidery of their fine foliage.
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