paˈraster, paˈrastron nonce-wd.
[f. Gr. παρα- beside, etc. (see para-1 1) + ἀστήρ, ἄστρον star, after parhelion, paraselene.]
A (supposed) image of a star, analogous to a parhelion.
| 1653 H. More Antid. Ath. iii. xvi. §9 It should seem a hundred times more easy for natural Causes to hit upon a Paraster or Parastron (for let Analogy embolden me so to call these seldom or never seen Phænomena..) than upon a Parelios or Paraselene. |