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Having many articulations or joints.

To start out or up. Chaucer.

or designating, an acid obtained as a white crystalline substance by the distillation of tartaric acid.

A salt of pyrotartaric acid.

Designating an acid which is more commonly called uric acid.

to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India.

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

her sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act. And maketh him out of his sleep to start. Chaucer. I start as from some dreadful dream. Dryden. Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside. I. Watts. But if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart. Shak.

One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart. [Obs.] Shak.

One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race.

Apt to start; skittish. [R.]

Aptness to start. [R.]

Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster.

from Start, v. Starting bar (Steam Eng.), a hand lever for working the values in starting an engine. -- Starting hole, a loophole; evasion. [Obs.] -- Starting point, the point from which motion begins, or from which anything starts. -- Starting post, a post, stake, barrier, or place from which competitors in a race s…

By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically. Shak.

Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse. [Colloq.]

To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start. Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction Addison.

In a startling manner.

Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a hourse. [Colloq.]

Being or living under Tartarus; infernal. "Subtartarean powers." Pope.