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Stargazer   /stˈɑrgˌeɪzər/   Listen
Stargazer

noun
1.
Someone indifferent to the busy world.  Synonym: lotus-eater.
2.
A physicist who studies astronomy.  Synonyms: astronomer, uranologist.
3.
Heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head.



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"Stargazer" Quotes from Famous Books



... everlasting staring! This it is that leads us astray. That old stargazer, with whom Aesop has made us acquainted, deserved, indeed, to fall into the well, no less for his profanity than his stupidity. Yet this same star-gazing it is that we miscall reflection. Thus, in our blank wonder at Nature, in our naked analysis ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859 • Various
... the continent. Called also Eel-fish and Tandan (q.v.). In Sydney the same name is applied also to Cnidoglanis megastoma, Rich., and in New Zealand Kathetostoma monopterygium. Cnidoglanis and Cnidoglanis are Siluroids, and Kathetostoma is a"stargazer," i.e. a fish having eyes on the upper surface of the head, belonging to ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris


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