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To set from the barrier at a race. 
When from the goal they start. 
The youthful charioteers with heaving heart 
Rush to the race. Dry den. 
To set out on any pursuit. 
Fair course of passion, where two lovers start , 
And run together, heart still yokt with heart. Waller. 
_ To START, v. a. To alarm; to disturb suddenly; to 
startle. 
Direness, familiar to my slaught’rous thoughts, 
Cannot once start me. Shakspeare. 
To make to start or fly hastily from a hiding place; to 
rouse by a sudden disturbance. 
The blood more stirs 
To rouse a lion than to start a hare. Shakspeare, 
To bring into motion ; to produce to view or notice; to 
produce unexpectedly. 
Conjure with ’em! 
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar. Shakspeare. 
To discover; to bring within pursuit.—'The sensual men 
agree in pursuit of every pleasure they can start. Temple. 
.—To put suddenly out of place.—One, by a fall in wrest¬ 
ling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum. 
Wiseman. 
START, s. A motion of terror; a sudden twitch or 
contraction of the frame from fear or alarm. 
These flaws and starts would well become 
A woman’s story at a winter’s fire. 
Authorized by her grandam. Shakspeare. 
A sudden rousing to action; excitement. 
How much had I to do to calm his rage! 
Now fear I this will give it start again. Shakspeare. 
Sally; vehement eruption; sudden effusion. 
Thou art like enough, through vassal fear. 
Base inclination, and the start of spleen, 
To fight against me under Percy’s pay. Shakspeare. 
Sudden fit; intermitted action. 
Methought her eyes had crost her tongue; 
For she did speak in starts distractedly. Shakspeare. 
A quick spring or motion ; a shoot; a push.-—Both cause 
the string to give a quicker start. Bacon.- —First emission 
from the barrier; act of setting out. 
You stand like greyhounds in the slips, 
Straining upon the start. Shakspeare. 
To get the Start. To begin before another ; to obtain 
advantage over another.-— -Get the start of the majestic 
world. Shakspeare.— She might have forsaken him, if he 
had not got the start of her. Dry den. 
START, [j-fceope. Sax.] A fail: hence the name of the 
bird redstart. It signifies also the long handle of any thing. 
It is a common northern word. 
START POINT, a cape of the English Channel, on the 
south-east coast of the county of Devon; 9 miles south of 
Dartmouth. Lat. 50. 11. N. long. 3. 38. W. 
STA'RTER, s. One that shrinks from his purpose. 
Stand to it boldly, and take quarter. 
To let thee see I am no starter. Hudibras. 
One who suddenly moves a question or objection .—A dog 
that rouses the game.—If Sheridan was not the stanchest 
hound in, the pack, he was at least the best starter. Delany. 
STARlTORTH, or Stratford, a parish of England, 
North Riding of Yorkshire; 4 miles north-west of Greta 
Bridge. 
STA'RTING, s. The act of starting. 
Nor fright thy nurse 
With midnight startings. Donne. 
STA'RTING-HOLE, 5. Evasion; loophole.—What trick, 
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what starting-hole, canst thou find out, to hide thee from 
this open shame. Shakspeare. 
STA'RTINGLY, adv. By sudden fits; with frequent in¬ 
termission.—Why do you speak so startingly and rash f 
Shakspeare. 
STA'RTINGPOST, s. Barrier from which the race 
begins. 
To STARTLE, v. n. To shrink ; to move on feeling a 
sudden impression of alarm or terror. 
The starting steed was seized with sudden fright, 
And bounding o’er the pommel cast the knight. Dry den. 
Why shrinks the soul 
Back on hersplf, and startles at destruction ? Addison. 
To STARTLE, v. a. To fright; to shock; to impress 
with sudden terror, surprise, or alarm. 
Such whispering wak’d her, but with startled eye 
On Adam. Milton. 
To deter; to make to deviate.—They would find occa¬ 
sions enough, upon the account of his known affections to 
the king’s service, from which it was not possible to remove 
or startle him. Clarendon. 
STA'RTLE, s. Sudden alarm; shock; sudden impres¬ 
sion of (error.—After having recovered from my first startle, 
I was very well pleased at the accident. Spectator. 
STA'RTUP, s. A kind of high shoe; agalage. 
Draw close into the covert, lest the wet, 
Which falls like lazy mists upon the gronnd, 
Soak through your startups, Fletcher. 
One that comes suddenly into notice.—That young start¬ 
up hath all the glory of my overthrow. Shakspeare. 
STA'RTUP, adj. Suddenly come into notice. A bad 
word. —A new start-up sect. Warburton. 
To STARVE, v. n. Qteappan, Sax. sterven, Dutch, to 
die.] To perish ; to be destroyed. Obsolete. 
To her came message of the murderment. 
Wherein her guiltless friends should hopeless starve. Fairfax. 
To perish with hunger. It has with or for before the 
cause; of less properly. Were the pains of honest industry, 
and of starving with hunger and cold, set before us, no 
body would doubt which to chuse. Locke. —An animal 
that starves of hunger, dies feverish and delirious. Arbuth- 
not. —To be killed with cold. It has with ox for before the 
cause. 
Have I seen the naked starve for cold, 
While avarice my charity controll’d ? Sandys. 
To suffer extreme poverty. 
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed: 
What then ? Is the reward of virtue bread ? Pope. 
To be destroyed with cold. Had the seeds of the pepper- 
plant been borne from Java to these northern countries, they 
must have starved for want of sun. Woodward. 
To STARVE, v. a. To kill with hunger. 
I cannot blame his cousin king, 
That wish’d him on the barren mountains starv'd. 
Shakspeare. 
To subdue by famine. 
Thy desires 
Are wolfish, bloody, starv'd, and ravenous. Shakspeare. 
To kill with cold. 
From beds of raging fire to starve in ice 
Their soft ethereal warmth, and (here to pine 
Immovable, infix’d, and frozen round. Milton. 
To deprive of force or vigour.—The powers of their minds 
are starved by disuse, and have lost that reach and strength 
which nature fitted them to receive. Locke. 
STARVRGUT BAY, a bay on the south west coast of 
Jamaica, south of Starvegut Point. 
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