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To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To startle from quiet; to alarm. Smale foules a great heap That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep. Chaucer.

errified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. Macaulay.

Start modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.

The extent of a movement measured from the starting point or position of equilibrium; -- applied especially to vibratory movements.

To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun. [Obs.] Spenser.

to strike with amazement; to confound with wonder, surprise, or fear. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind. Milton.

A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that when the two fires meet both must go out for lack of fuel.

The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games. To their appointed base they went. Dryden.

catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line. Quart. Rev.

ing new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start. "Tears began to flow." Dryden. When I begin, I will also make an end. 1 Sam. iii. 12.

To throw into disorder; to tumble. [R.] From her betumbled couch she starteth. Shak.

To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. Jeffrey.

An exclamation used to startle or frighten. [Spelt also boh and boo.]

mpeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. Barrow.

To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.

One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside.

A darting away; a starting off or aside.

The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened. I for sorrow sung, That such a king should play bopeep, And go the fools among. Shak.

A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.