3. To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start business.
At once they start, advancing in a line.
Dryden.
At intervals some bird from out the brakes
Starts into voice a moment, then is still.
Byron. 4. To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure.
To start after,
to set out after; to follow; to pursue. — To start against, to act as a rival candidate
against. — To start for, to be a candidate for, as an office. — To start up, to rise suddenly, as from
a seat or couch; to come suddenly into notice or importance.
Start
(Start) v. t.
1. To cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as,
the hounds started a fox.
Upon malicious bravery dost thou come
To start my quiet?
Shak.
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Cæsar.
Shak. 2. To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start.
Sir W. Temple. 3. To cause to move or act; to set going, running, or flowing; as, to start a railway train; to start a mill; to
start a stream of water; to start a rumor; to start a business.
I was engaged in conversation upon a subject which the people love to start in discourse.
Addison. 4. To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the
storm started the bolts in the vessel.
One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.
Wiseman. 5. [Perh. from D. storten, which has this meaning also.] (Naut.) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin
drawing from; as, to start a water cask.
Start
(Start), n.
1. The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any
sudden motion, or beginning of motion.
The fright awakened Arcite with a start.
Dryden. 2. A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort.
For she did speak in starts distractedly.
Shak.
Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry.
L'Estrange. 3. A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy.
To check the starts and sallies of the soul.
Addison.