a. Chiefly poet. Bright as a star; bright with stars.
1560. Phaër, Æneid, X. (1562), F f iij. The father of gods … him selfe doth councell call into the starbright seat.
1561. Nuce, Seneca’s Octavia, II. ii. E j. So is Augustus prince and father cald, Of country first, in starbright throne ystald.
1606. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. II. Magnificence, 840. Their star-bright eye seems vail’d.
1667. Milton, P. L., X. 450. At last as from a Cloud his fulgent head And shape Starr-bright appeer’d.
1817. Shelley, Rev. Islam, I. xviii. Loosening her star-bright robe and shadowy hair.
1828. Coleridge, Gard. Boccaccio, 77. Florence!… Thou brightest star of star-bright Italy!
b. ? technical.
1833. Loudon, Encycl. Archit., § 1324. When it [cider] has remained a short time quiet,… if not perfectly star-bright, which it seldom is, it should be fined with isinglass.
