Word Meanings - STARTLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a hourse.
Related words: (words related to STARTLISH)
- 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. - ESPECIALLY
In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree. - 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, - EASILY
1. With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen. 2. Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily. Sir W. Temple. 3. Readily; - 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. - UNEASILY
In an uneasy manner. - 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. - GREASILY
, adv. 1. In a greasy manner. 2. In a gross or indelicate manner. You talk greasily; your lips grow foul. Shak.