shot star
[f. shot ppl. a.]
1. A shooting star.
| 1633 T. Bancroft Gluttons Fever C 1, (Like a shot starre,) from prides high turrets throwne To Stygian deepes. 1818 Keats Endym. iii. 597 As shot stars fall, She fled ere I could groan for mercy. |
2. The alga Nostoc commune, vulgarly supposed to be of meteoric origin.
| 1811 M{supc}Skimin Hist. Carrickfergus 202 Common Heron..is believed to disgorge that gelatinous substance called Shot-star. |