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Handicap :: Handicap (n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like..

Startlingly :: Startle (n.) A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger..

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..

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..

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

Forehand :: Forehand (n.) Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.

Water Flea :: Water flea () Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts..

Starfish :: Starfinch (n.) The European redstart.

Startful :: Starter (n.) A dog that rouses game.

Set :: Set (v. t.) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as, to set a psalm..

Start-up :: Start-up (n.) One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart.

Ripper :: Ripper (n.) Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc..

Chancroid :: Chancroid (n.) A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre..

Flush :: Flush (n.) A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.

Startling :: Startled (imp. & p. p.) of Startl.

Braid :: Braid (n.) A quick motion; a start.

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..

Startled :: Startish (a.) Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.

Rebound :: Rebound (v. i.) To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo..

Startle :: Startling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Startl.

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