SPage 498
- English Word Start Definition To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure.
- English Word Start Definition To cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox.
- English Word Start Definition To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- English Word Start Definition To cause to move or act; to set going, running, or flowing; as, to start a railway train; to start a mill; to start a stream of water; to start a rumor; to start a business.
- English Word Start Definition To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel.
- English Word Start Definition To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask.
- English Word Start Definition The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion.
- English Word Start Definition A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort.
- English Word Start Definition A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy.
- English Word Start Definition The beginning, as of a journey or a course of action; first motion from a place; act of setting out; the outset; -- opposed to finish.
- English Word Start Definition A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
- English Word Start Definition The handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle.
- English Word Start Definition The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.
- English Word Start Definition The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- English Word Start-up Definition One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart.
- English Word Start-up Definition A kind of high rustic shoe.
- English Word Start-up Definition Upstart.
- English Word started Definition of Start
- English Word Starter Definition One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race.
- English Word Starter Definition A dog that rouses game.
- English Word Startful Definition Apt to start; skittish.
- English Word Startfulness Definition Aptness to start.
- English Word Starthroat Definition Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster.
- English Word starting Definition of Start
- English Word Starting Definition a. & n. from Start, v.
- English Word Startingly Definition By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.
- English Word Startish Definition Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
- English Word Startle Definition To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
- English Word Startle Definition To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.
- English Word Startle Definition To deter; to cause to deviate.