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ther 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.]

Same as Astert. [Obs.]

A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe.

To start out or up. Chaucer.

d 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.

A motor starter provided with an underload switch.

To start or spring up suddenly. Spenser. Tennyson.

Toward the back or rear; backward. "Therewith aback she started." Chaucer.