Verb

(star)

To look fixedly (at something).

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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.

To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.

:staring windows or colours

(obsolete) To stand out; to project; to bristle.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare .

* John Mortimer (1656?-1736)

*:Take off all the staring straws and jags in the hive.