noun

• (dated) A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
  "Add one Ray unto the common Luſtre; add not only to the Number but the Note of thy Generation; and prove not a Cloud but an Aſteriſk in thy Region."
• (dated) A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
  "He is in the right to put the Aſteriſks, not the VVords into the text; becauſe They do indeed give us [notice, that there is in Them] as much additional meaning, as there vvould be in thoſe vvords vvhich they ſo properly repreſent."
• (dated) A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
  "Using a crafting knife, cut a small asterisk shape in the center of each black circle. Gently pierce each asterisk with a wooden skewer to make a hole. Once done, simply insert your stove knobs, and you're almost ready!"
• (dated) A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
  "I don't want to be an asterisk in my kids' lives. I don't want to be just some guy who sporadically appears and then disappears again."

verb

• (transitive) To mark or replace (text, etc.) with an asterisk symbol (*; noun sense 1.1); to star.
  "Bank of New Zealand Estates Company Share Account now stands, as we have already seen, at £1,089,722 17s. 7d., a reduction of £760,177 2s. 5d. having been effected by the writing off of share capital. But from the point of view of its intrinsic value, the item has still to be dealt with, being asterisked in the balance sheet as follows: […]"