Definition of start

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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..

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Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) An upstart.
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..
Recoil :: Recoil (n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood..
Brantail :: Brantail (n.) The European redstart; -- so called from the red color of its tail.
Upset :: Upset (a.) Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold..
Flush :: Flush (n.) A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
Gliff :: Gliff (n.) A transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear.
Rouse :: Rouse (v. i.) To get or start up; to rise.
Upstart :: Upstart (n.) One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth, power, or honor; a parvenu..
Project :: Project (n.) The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth..
Start :: Start (v. i.) A tail, or anything projecting like a tail..
Sailing :: Sailing (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage..
Blench :: Blench (v. i.) To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail..
Shy :: Shy (a.) To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses.
Start :: Start (v. i.) To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start business..
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..
Bolting :: Bolting (n.) A darting away; a starting off or aside.
Astarte :: Astarte (n.) A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe..
Neocracy :: Neocracy (n.) Government by new or inexperienced hands; upstart rule; raw or untried officials.
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