Starlight (a.) Lighted by the stars, or by the stars only; as, a starlight night.
Starlike (a.) Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers.
Starlike (a.) Shining; bright; illustrious.
Starling (n.) Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera. The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra.
Starling (n.) A California fish; the rock trout.
Starling (n.) A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support; -- called also sterling.
Starlit (a.) Lighted by the stars; starlight.
Starmonger (n.) A fortune teller; an astrologer; -- used in contempt.
Starn (n.) The European starling.
Starnose (n.) A curious American mole (Condylura cristata) having the nose expanded at the end into a stellate disk; -- called also star-nosed mole.
Starost (n.) A nobleman who possessed a starosty.
Starosty (n.) A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life.
Starproof (a.) Impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm.
Star-read (n.) Doctrine or knowledge of the stars; star lore; astrology; astronomy.
Starred (a.) Adorned or studded with stars; bespangled.
Starred (a.) Influenced in fortune by the stars.
Starriness (n.) The quality or state of being starry; as, the starriness of the heavens.
Starry (a.) Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.
Starry (a.) Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame.
Starry (a.) Shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes.
Starry (a.) Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate.
Starshine (n.) The light of the stars.
Starshoot (n.) See Nostoc.
Star-spangled (a.) Spangled or studded with stars.
Starstone (n.) Asteriated sapphire.
started (imp. & p. p.) of Start
starting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Start
Start (v. i.) To leap; to jump.
Start (v. i.) To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act.
Start (v. i.) To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start business.
Start (v. i.) To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure.
Start (v. t.) 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.
Start (v. t.) To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
Start (v. t.) 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.
Start (v. t.) 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.
Start (v. t.) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask.
Start (n.) 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.
Start (n.) A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort.
Start (n.) A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy.
Start (n.) The beginning, as of a journey or a course of action; first motion from a place; act of setting out; the outset; -- opposed to finish.
Start (v. i.) A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
Start (v. i.) The handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle.
Start (v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.
Start (v. i.) The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
Starter (n.) One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race.
Starter (n.) A dog that rouses game.
Startful (a.) Apt to start; skittish.
Startfulness (n.) Aptness to start.
Starthroat (n.) Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster.
Starting () a. & n. from Start, v.
Startingly (adv.) By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.
Startish (a.) Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
Startled (imp. & p. p.) of Startle
Startling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Startle
Startle (v. t.) To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
Startle (v. t.) To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.
Startle (v. t.) To deter; to cause to deviate.
Startle (n.) A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.
Startlingly (adv.) In a startling manner.
Startlish (a.) Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a hourse.
Start-up (n.) One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart.
Start-up (n.) A kind of high rustic shoe.
Start-up (a.) Upstart.
Starvation (n.) The act of starving, or the state of being starved.
Starved (imp. & p. p.) of Starve
Starving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Starve
Starve (v. i.) To die; to perish.
Starve (v. i.) To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
Starve (v. i.) To perish or die with cold.
Starve (v. t.) To destroy with cold.
Starve (v. t.) To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
Starve (v. t.) To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.
Starve (v. t.) To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
Starve (v. t.) To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.
Starvedly (adv.) In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously.
Starveling (n.) One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment.
Starveling (a.) Hungry; lean; pining with want.
Starwort (n.) Any plant of the genus Aster. See Aster.
Starwort (n.) A small plant of the genus Stellaria, having star-shaped flowers; star flower; chickweed.
Stasmia (pl. ) of Stasimon
Stasimon (n.) In the Greek tragedy, a song of the chorus, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics.
Stasis (n.) A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation.
Statable (a.) That can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question at issue is statable.
Statal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or existing with reference to, a State of the American Union, as distinguished from the general government.
Statant (a.) In a standing position; as, a lion statant.
Statarian (a.) Fixed; settled; steady; statary.
Statarianly (adv.) Fixedly; steadly.
Statary (a.) Fixed; settled.
State (n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
State (n.) Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
State (n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
State (n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
State (n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
State (n.) Estate, possession.
State (n.) A person of high rank.
State (n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.
State (n.) The principal persons in a government.
State (n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
State (n.) A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
State (n.) A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.