[ adj ] not starry; having no stars or starlike objects <adj.all> dark starless nights
Starless \Star"less\ (st[aum]r"l[e^]s), a. Being without stars; having no stars visible; as, a starless night. --Milton.
ON THE starless and stormy night of January 4 1656, the Nuestra Senora de las Maravillas - Our Lady of the Marvels - fired a cannon shot to warn the rest of its flotilla of approaching sandbanks off the Little Bahama Bank.