Word Meanings - BOLTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A darting away; a starting off or aside.

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• ASIDE
  1. On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak.
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• STARTISH
  Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
• DART
  A fish; the dace. See Dace. Dart sac , a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure. (more info) 1. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance;
• DARTLE
  To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart. My star that dartles the red and the blue. R. Browning.
• 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.
• DARTINGLY
  Like a dart; rapidly.
• DARTOID
  Like the dartos; dartoic; as, dartoid tissue.
• 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.
• DARTER
  The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus; -- so called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. See Snakebird. (more info) 1. One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.
• DARTOS
  A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.
• STARTHROAT
  Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster.
• DARTROUS
  Relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic. Dartroud diathesis, A morbid condition of the system predisposing to the development of certain skin deseases, such as eczema, psoriasis, and pityriasis. Also called
• 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.
• DARTOIC
  Of or pertaining to the dartos.
• 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.
• SEASIDE
  The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. Also used adjectively.
• ASTARTE
  A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe.
• DODDART
  A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game. Halliwell.
• 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.