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Word Meanings - STARTFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Apt to start; skittish.

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  • STARTLINGLY
    In a startling manner.
  • STARTFULNESS
    Aptness to start.
  • STARTISH
    Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
  • SKITTISH
    1. Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. "A restiff, skittish jade." L'Estrange. 2. Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. "Skittish Fortune's hall." Shak. -- Skit"tish*ly, adv. -- Skit"tish*ness,
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • UPSTART
    To start or spring up suddenly. Spenser. Tennyson.

 

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