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Star-shoot [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. That which is emitted from a star.

2. I have seen a good quantity of that jelly, by the vulgar called a star-shoot as if it remained upon the extinction of a falling star.

3. [The writer once saw the same kind of substance from a brilliant meteor, at Amherst in Massachusetts. See Journ . Of Science for a description of it by Rufus Graves, Esq.]