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Materials, easily lighted, for starting a fire.

A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel.

Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction.

the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump in cricket; the outer world. Outer bar, in England, the body of junior (or utter) barristers; -- so called because in court they occ…

A setting out, starting, or beginning. "The outset of a political journey." Burke. Giving a proper direction to this outset of life. J. Hawes.

single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.

A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger. "Some quirk or . . . evasion." Spenser. We ground the justification of our nonconformity on dark subtilties and intricate quirks. Barrow.

A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.

By or in a circuit; by a course longer than the direct course; back to the starting point.

that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage.

to rove or range in pursuit or search of something; to scamper. So four fierce coursers, starting to the race, Scour through the plain, and lengthen every pace. Dryden.

, attached to an internal- combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.

he horses of the army . . . were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting. Swift.

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. The fright awakened Arcite with a start. Dryden.

A starting, twitching, or convulsive motion.

gular velocity. See under Angular. -- Initial velocity, the velocity of a moving body at starting; especially, the velocity of a projectile as it leaves the mouth of a firearm from which it is discharged. -- Relative velocity, the velocity with which a body approaches or recedes from another body, whether both are mo…