Word Meanings - ABRAID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out. Chaucer. (more info) AS. abredgan to shake, draw; pref. a- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger. er-, orig.

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• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• AWAKENING
  Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak"en*ing*ly, adv.
• AROUSE
  To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the
• STARTISH
  Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
• SHAKESPEAREAN
  Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his
• AWAKENMENT
  An awakening.
• AWAKE
  Awoken; p. pr. & vb. n. Awaking. The form Awoke is sometimes used as 1. To rouse from sleep.; to wake; to awaken. Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. Tennyson. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save
• SHAKEN
  1. Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough. 2. Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2. Nor is the wood shaken or twisted. Barroe. 3. Impaired, as by a shock.
• SHAKE
  obs. p. p. of Shake. Chaucer.
• SHOUT
  To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc. Shouting of the men and women eke. Chaucer. They shouted thrice: what was the last cry for Shak. To shout at, to utter shouts
• SHAKER
  A variety of pigeon. P. J. Selby. (more info) 1. A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken. 2. One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms
• START
  sturzen to turn over, to fall, Sw. störa to cast down, to fall, Dan. styrte, and probably also to E. start a tail; the original sense being, perhaps, to show the tail, to tumble over suddenly. *166. Cf. 1. To leap; to jump. 2. To move suddenly,
• STARTINGLY
  By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically. Shak.
• STARTLISH
  Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a hourse.
• STARTING
  from Start, v. Starting bar , a hand lever for working the values in starting an engine. -- Starting hole, a loophole; evasion. -- Starting point, the point from which motion begins, or from which anything starts. -- Starting post, a post, stake,
• SHAKERISM
  Doctrines of the Shakers.
• STARTLE
  To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start. Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction Addison. (more info) Etym:
• SHAKEFORK
  A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• OVERSHAKE
  To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. Chaucer.
• WIDE-AWAKE
  Fully awake; not Dickens.
• REDSTART
  A small, handsome European singing bird , allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native
• UNDERLOAD STARTER
  A motor starter provided with an underload switch.
• WASHOUT
  The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.
• NEISHOUT
  The mahogany-like wood of the South African tree Pteroxylon utile, the sawdust of which causes violent sneezing (whence the name). Also called sneezewood.
• ASTARTE
  A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe.
• UNSHOUT
  To recall what is done by shouting. Shak.