Starry \Star"ry\, a.

1. Abounding with stars; adorned with stars. ``Above the starry sky.'' --Pope.

2. Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame.

Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influence? --Sir W. Scott.

3. Shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes.

4. Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate.

Starry ray (Zo["o]l.), a European skate (Raita radiata); -- so called from the stellate bases of the dorsal spines.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)