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Definition: THE EVENING STAR |
THE EVENING STAR1. The bright star of early evening in the western sky, soon passing below the horizon; specifically, the planet Venus; -- called also Vesper and Hesperus . During portions of the year, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are also evening stars. See Morning Star . |
Crosswords: THE EVENING STAR |
| English words defined with "THE EVENING STAR": Venus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "THE EVENING STAR": Editor, Ezzelin. (references) |
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Screenplays | I am the Evening Star. I'm always there, but I only shine at night. (Silverado; writing credit: Lawrence Kasdan; Mark Kasdan) Love is the morning and the evening star. (Elmer Gantry; writing credit: Richard Brooks; Sinclair Lewis) | |
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Meleager | Farewell, Morning Star, herald of dawn, and quickly come as the Evening Star, bringing again in secret her whom thou takest away. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The evening star flashed and glittered in the dusk. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the editor spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos. O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of Thought, A gilded impostor is he. Of shreds and patches his robes are wrought, His crown is brass, Himself an ass, And his power is fiddle-dee-dee. Prankily, crankily prating of naught, Silly old quilly old Monarch of Thought. Public opinion's camp-follower he, Thundering, blundering, plundering free. Affected, Ungracious, Suspected, Mendacious, Respected contemporaree! J.H. Bumbleshook |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "THE EVENING STAR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Manx | Rollage yn Astyr (Hesperus). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ethay eveningay arstay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-h-i-n-n-r-s-t-t-v" | |
-3 letters: anteverting, intenerates, threatening. | |
-4 letters: argentines, argentites, astringent, enervating, entertains, entreaties, entreating, estreating, generative, harvesting, heartening, innervates, integrates, intenerate, interstage, intervenes, inveterate, retightens, sententiae, seventieth, shattering, straighten, strengthen, tangerines, tenantries, tighteners, veneerings, venerating, vignetters. | |
-5 letters: agentives, agentries, aigrettes, anteverts, antigenes, argentine, argentite, earthiest, eighteens, enervates, engineers, enshrinee, entertain, gannister, garnishee, generates, gnathites, gratinees, greeniest. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 48 45 45 56 45 4E 49 4E 47 53 54 41 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000101 01010110 01000101 01001110 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010011 01010100 01000001 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T H E   E V E N I N G   S T A R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0048 0045 0045 0056 0045 004E 0049 004E 0047 0053 0054 0041 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)544239239563948434841253543552 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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