= STAR-LIGHT.
1581. Dee, Diary (Camden), 12. All the skye clere about, and fayre starshyne.
1830. Tennyson, Oriana, 24. By star-shine and by moonlight.
1855. Browning, Last Ride, iii. Cloud, sunset, moonrise, star-shine too.
1883. Stevenson, in Century Mag., XXVII. 39/2. A faint, diffused starshine came into the room like mist.
attrib. 1591. Florio, 2nd Fruites, 165. This wilbe a faire moone and starre-shine night.