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Falling Stars
Falling Stars are fiery exhalations, enkindled in the air, complying therewith in their motion,
and call’d shooting stars, which, when their more subtile parts are burnt away, fall
down, because the weight of the viscous and earthy matter, exceeds the weight of the
air that lies under it.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Staˊnza [in Poetry] *
Fixed Stars