Stelled (?), a. [See Stell to place.] Firmly placed or fixed. [Obs.]
"The stelled fires" [the stars]. Shak. [In this passage by some defined
as "starry," as if from stellatus.]
Stel"ler (?), n. [After Geo. W. Steller, a German naturalist.] (Zoöl)
The rytina; -- called also stellerine.
Stel"ler*id (?), n. [L. stella a star.] (Zoöl.) A starfish.
||Stel*ler"i*da (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) An extensive group of
||echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans.
{ Stel*ler"i*dan (?), Stel`ler*id"e*an (?), } n. (Zoöl.) A starfish, or
brittle star.
Stel*lif"er*ous (?), a. [L. stellifer; stella star + ferre to bear.]
Having, or abounding with, stars.
Stel"li*form (?), a. [L. stella a star + -form.] Like a star;
star-shaped; radiated.
Stel"li*fy (?), v. t. [L. stella a star + -fy.] To turn into a star; to
cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven.
[Obs. or R.] B. Jonson.
Stel"lion (?), n. [L. stellio a newt having starlike spots on its back,
fr. stella a star.] (Zoöl.) A lizard (Stellio vulgaris), common about
the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive- green,
shaded with black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim, and
star lizard.
Stel"lion*ate (?), n. [L. stellionatus cozenage, trickery, fr. stellio
a newt, a crafty, knavish person.] (Scots & Roman Law) Any fraud not
distinguished by a more special name; -- chiefly applied to sales of
the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's
own which belongs to another, etc. Erskine.
Stel"lu*lar (?), a. [L. stellula, dim. of stella a star.] 1. Having the
shape or appearance of little stars; radiated.