Word Meanings - ASTERT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to ASTERT)

• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• BEFALL
  To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak.
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• STARTISH
  Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
• ESCAPEMENT
  1. The act of escaping; escape. 2. Way of escape; vent. An escapement for youthful high spirits. G. Eliot. 3. The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by
• 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,
• 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:
• STARTFUL
  Apt to start; skittish.
• STARTHROAT
  Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• START-UP
  1. One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart. Shak. 2. A kind of high rustic shoe. Drayton. A startuppe, or clownish shoe. Spenser.
• ESCAPER
  One who escapes.
• STARTER
  1. One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race. 2. A dog that rouses game.
• ESCAPE
  LL. ex cappa out of one's cape or cloak; hence, to slip out of one's 1. To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger. "Sailors that escaped the wreck." Shak. 2. To avoid the notice of;
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• 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.
• ASTARTE
  A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe.
• SELF-STARTER
  A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal- combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.
• ASTART
  See ASTERT
• OUTSTART
  To start out or up. Chaucer.
• ANCHOR ESCAPEMENT
  The common recoil escapement. A variety of the lever escapement with a wide impulse pin.
• UPSTART
  To start or spring up suddenly. Spenser. Tennyson.