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Definition of falling star

falling star
Shooting iron, a firearm. [Slang, U.S.] Shooting star. (a) (Astron.) A starlike, luminous meteor, that, appearing suddenly, darts quickly across some portion of the sky, and then as suddenly disappears, leaving sometimes, for a few seconds, a luminous train, -- called also falling star. Note: Shooting stars are small cosmical bodies which encounter the earth in its annual revolution, and which become visible by coming with planetary velocity into the upper regions of the atmosphere. At certain periods, as on the 13th of November and 10th of August, they appear for a few hours in great numbers, apparently diverging from some point in the heavens, such displays being known as meteoric showers, or star showers. These bodies, before encountering the earth, were moving in orbits closely allied to the orbits of comets. See Leonids, Perseids. (b) (Bot.) The American cowslip (Dodecatheon Meadia). See under Cowslip. Shooting stick (Print.), a tapering piece of wood or iron, used by printers to drive up the quoins in the chase. --Hansard.
Falling star
Falling Fall"ing, a. & n. from Fall, v. i. Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i. Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy. --Shak. Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star. Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a meteorite; an a["e]rolite. Falling tide, the ebb tide. Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq.] --Bartlett.

Meaning of falling star from wikipedia

- Look up falling star in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Falling Star(s) or The Falling Star may refer to: Meteor or falling star, the visible p****age...
- 2005. "Waiting for a Star to Fall" was written by Shannon Rubicam and George Merrill, and was inspired by an actual falling star that Rubicam had seen...
- A meteor, known colloquially as a shooting star, is a glowing streak of a small body (usually meteoroid) going through Earth's atmosphere, after being...
- "Catch a Falling Star" is a song written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss. It was made famous by Perry Como who recorded and released his version in late...
- kilometres (97,000 ft); they flared around 24 kilometres (15 mi), with one falling apart at 18.5 kilometres (61,000 ft) and the other remaining luminous down...
- The Falling Star (German: Der fallende Stern) is a 1950 West German drama film directed by Harald Braun and starring Werner Krauss, Dieter Borsche and...
- The Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star, also known simply as Song, is a poem by John Donne, one of the leading English metaphysical poets. Probably first...
- Falling Star (Italian: Stella cadente) is a 2014 Spanish historical film directed by Lluís Miñarro which stars Alex Brendemühl as King Amadeo. It features...
- The Star Trek franchise's first tie-in publications were James Blish's 1967 volume of episode novelizations and Mack Reynolds's 1968 young adult novel...
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