Definition of start

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Start (n.) A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy..

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Gliff :: Gliff (n.) A transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear.
Kinding :: Kinding (n.) Materials, easily lighted, for starting a fire..
Start :: Start (v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.
Bolting :: Bolting (n.) A darting away; a starting off or aside.
Astert :: Astert (v. t.) To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun.
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..
Parvenu :: Parvenu (n.) An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.
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. 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..
Firetail :: Firetail (n.) The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt.
Start :: Start (v. i.) To leap; to jump.
Shy :: Shy (n.) A sudden start aside, as by a horse..
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. t.) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask..
Starfish :: Starfinch (n.) The European redstart.
Startle :: Startle (v. t.) To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start..
Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) An upstart.
Recoil :: Recoil (n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood..
Affray :: Affray (v. t.) To startle from quiet; to alarm.
Set :: Set (v. i.) To begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now followed by out.
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