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Life :: Life (n.) The potential principle, or force, by which the organs of animals and plants are started and continued in the performance of their several and cooperative functions; the vital force, whether regarded as physical or spiritual..

Flogger :: Flogger (n.) A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.

Dehorn :: Dehorn (v. t.) To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn.

Quirk :: Quirk (n.) 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..

Start :: Start (v. i.) To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure..

Upstart :: Upstart (n.) The meadow saffron.

Start :: Start (v. i.) To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start business..

Shy :: Shy (n.) A sudden start aside, as by a horse..

Jerk :: "Jerk (v. i.) To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts..

Starvation :: Start-up (a.) Upstart.

Wince :: Wince (v. i.) To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back..

Erysipelas :: Erysipelas (n.) St. Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused inflammation of the skin, which, starting usually from a single point, spreads gradually over its surface. It is usually regarded as contagious, and often occurs epidemically..

Dodge :: Dodge (n.) The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice..

Redstart :: Redstart (n.) A small, handsome European singing bird (Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied 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..

Start :: Start (v. t.) 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..

Start :: Start (v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.

Start :: Start (v. t.) 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..

Startfulness :: Startful (a.) Apt to start; skittish.

Dodge :: Dodge (v. t.) To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown..

Neocracy :: Neocracy (n.) Government by new or inexperienced hands; upstart rule; raw or untried officials.

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