Definition of start

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Start (n.) A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort..

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Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
Snob :: Snob (n.) A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors..
Ripper :: Ripper (n.) Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc..
Starter :: Start (v. i.) The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse..
Kinding :: Kinding (n.) Materials, easily lighted, for starting a fire..
Dart :: Dart (v. i.) To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket..
Upstart :: Upstart (v. i.) To start or spring up suddenly.
Redstart :: Redstart (n.) An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches..
Throw-off :: Throw-off (n.) A start in a hunt or a race.
Upsterte :: Upsterte () imp. & p. p. of Upstart.
Set :: Set (v. i.) To begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now followed by out.
Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt..
Startling :: Startled (imp. & p. p.) of Startl.
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..
Start :: Start (n.) The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion..
Flush :: Flush (n.) A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
Rouse :: Rouse (v.) To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase..
Bolter :: Bolter (n.) One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.
Startful :: Starter (n.) A dog that rouses game.
Brachystochrone :: Brachystochrone (n.) A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid..
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