Stär'-gāz'er, n.

n. 1. One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in contempt, an astronomer. 2. (Ichth.) A spiny-rayed, percoid fish, of the family Trachinidæ, or weavers, and genus Uranoscopus;—so called from the position of the eyes, which look directly upward. New. Am. Cyc.