STAR, Temporary. See [Temporary Stars].
STAR, Variable. See [Variable Stars].
STARBOARD. The opposite of larboard or port; the distinguishing term for the right side of a ship when looking forward [from the Anglo-Saxon stéora-bórd].
STARBOARD THE HELM! So place the helm that the rudder is brought on the port side of the stern-post. (See [Hard-a-starboard].)
STARBOLINS. The old familiar term for the men of the starboard watch, as larbolin was for the larboard or port watch.
STAR-FISHES. See [Sea-star].
STAR-FORTS. Those traced in the form of a star, with alternate salient and re-entering angles. They are not in much favour, being expensive in construction, of small interior space, and having much dead space in their ditches.
STAR-GLINT. A meteorite.
STAR-PAGODA. A gold coin of the East Indies. In Madras its value is 7s. 6d.
STARS, Fixed. Those innumerable bodies bespangling the heavens from pole to pole, distinguishable from the planets by their apparent fixity; it is, however, certain that many of them move through space at a rate vastly greater than that of the earth in her orbit, though, from their enormous distance, we can with difficulty perceive it.