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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 Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Staˊnza [in Poetry] *
Fixed Stars