What's the difference between starless and stayless?
Starless
Definition:
(a.) Being without stars; having no stars visible; as, a starless night.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea."
(2) A map of Wales, culled from an atlas, with Llareggub marked in for Laugharne, is followed by a sheet of black paper, designating the "starless, bible-black" night.