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v. t. & i. Same as Astert. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; a Phœnician goddess. ] (Zool.) A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To start (the engine of a motor vehicle) using a temporary connection to supply electrical power from another vehicle or another source of current; -- an emergency procedure used when a vehicle's own battery has insufficient power to start the vehicle normally. Cables used to transmit electrical current from one vehicle to another for the purpose of jump-starting are called jumper cables. [ PJC ]

2. To provide a speedy start to (an activity) using the assistance of some external impetus; to re-energize (an activity proceeding sluggishly); -- accomplished by application of a stimulus not normally used in the activity. [ Figurative ] [ PJC ]

n. The action or event of jump-starting. For motor vehicles, the jump-starting of an engine is also called a jump. [ PJC ]

a. [ Meso- + tartaric. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid called also inactive tartaric acid. It is an optically inactive stereoisomer of tartaric acid due to internal compensation of the rotatory activity of the two asymmetric centers; it has a plane of symmetry in the molecule. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. [ Mult- + articulate. ] Having many articulations or joints. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a person with a record of failing.
Syn. -- loser, failure, unsuccessful person. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been entered. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. A proposal that will not receive serious consideration by those with authority to decide. [ PJC ]

v. i. To start out or up. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pyro- + tartaric. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a white crystalline substance by the distillation of tartaric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of pyrotartaric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pyro- + tri- + tartaric. ] (Chem.) Designating an acid which is more commonly called uric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Red + start tail. ] (Zool.) (a) A small, handsome European singing bird (Phoenicurus phoenicurus, formerly Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is Phoenicurus ochruros (formerly Phoenicurus tithys), and is now rare and protected by law in England. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla and allied genera, native of India. (b) An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. 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; -- called also a starter. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ From Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. ] A Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union which provided for stepwise reductions in the number of nuclear weapons possessed by each country. [ PJC ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upon malicious bravery dost thou come
To start my quiet? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring into being or into view; to originate; to invent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was engaged in conversation upon a subject which the people love to start in discourse. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fright awakened Arcite with a start. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort. [ 1913 Webster ]

For she did speak in starts distractedly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

To check the starts and sallies of the soul. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The start of first performance is all. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

At a start, at once; in an instant. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

At a start he was betwixt them two. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

To get the start, or
To have the start, to begin before another; to gain or have the advantage in a similar undertaking; -- usually with of. “Get the start of the majestic world.” Shak. “She might have forsaken him if he had not got the start of her.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. stert a tail, AS. steort; akin to LG. stert, steert, D. staart, G. sterz, Icel. stertr, Dan. stiert, Sw. stjert. √166. Cf. Stark naked, under Stark, Start, v. i. ] 1. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) The arm, or lever, of a gin, drawn around by a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. started; p. pr. & vb. n. starting. ] [ OE. sterten; akin to D. storten to hurl, rush, fall, G. stürzen, OHG. sturzen to turn over, to fall, Sw. störta 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. Start a tail. ] 1. To leap; to jump. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act. [ 1913 Webster ]

And maketh him out of his sleep to start. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

I start as from some dreadful dream. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

But if he start,
It is the flesh of a corrupted heart. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start in business. [ 1913 Webster ]

At once they start, advancing in a line. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

At intervals some bird from out the brakes
Starts into voice a moment, then is still. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dog that rouses game. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Apt to start; skittish. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Aptness to start. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Start, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

Starting bar (Steam Eng.), a hand lever for working the valves in starting an engine. --
Starting hole, a loophole; evasion. [ Obs. ] --
Starting point, the point from which motion begins, or from which anything starts. --
Starting post, a post, stake, barrier, or place from which competitors in a race start, or begin the race. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Startled p. pr. & vb. n. Startling ] [ Freq. of start. ] To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction? Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise. [ 1913 Webster ]

The supposition, at least, that angels do sometimes assume bodies need not startle us. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deter; to cause to deviate. [ R. ] Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To start; shock; fright; frighten; alarm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger. [ 1913 Webster ]

After having recovered from my first startle, I was very well pleased with the accident. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a startling manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a horse. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of high rustic shoe. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A startuppe, or clownish shoe. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Upstart. [ R. ] Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being or living under Tartarus; infernal. “Subtartarean powers.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. teart. √63. Cf. Tear, v. t. ] 1. Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: Sharp; keen; severe; as, a tart reply; tart language; a tart rebuke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why art thou tart, my brother? Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. tarte, F. tarte; perhaps originally the same word as tourte, LL. torta, fr. L. tortus, p. p. of torquere to twist, bend, wind, because tarts were originally made of a twisted shape. Cf. Torture, n. ] A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. tiretane linsey-woolsey, akin to Sp. tiritaña a sort of thin silk; cf. Sp. tiritar to shiver or shake with cold. ] Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern. [ 1913 Webster ]

MacCullummore's heart will be as cold as death can make it, when it does not warm to the tartan. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sight of the tartan inflamed the populace of London with hatred. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. tartane, or Sp., Pg., or It. tartana; all perhaps of Arabic origin. ] (Naut.) A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. tartre (cf. Pr. tartari, Sp., Pg., & It. tartaro, LL. tartarum, LGr. &unr_;); perhaps of Arabic origin. ] 1. (Chem.) A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cream of tartar. (Chem.) See under Cream. --
Tartar emetic (Med. Chem.), a double tartrate of potassium and basic antimony. It is a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweetish metallic taste, and used in medicine as a sudorific and emetic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. [ Per. Tātār, of Tartar origin. ] A native or inhabitant of Tartary in Asia; a member of any one of numerous tribes, chiefly Moslem, of Turkish origin, inhabiting the Russian Europe; -- written also, more correctly but less usually, Tatar. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person of a keen, irritable temper. [ 1913 Webster ]

To catch a tartar, to lay hold of, or encounter, a person who proves too strong for the assailant. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. tartare. ] See Tartarus. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Tartrated. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. tartareus: cf. F. tartaréen. ] Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. 1st Tartarous. ] 1. Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having the surface rough and crumbling; as, many lichens are tartareous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tartarian lamb (Bot.), Scythian lamb. See Barometz. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to tartar; derived from, or resembling, tartar. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tartaric acid. (a) An acid widely diffused throughout the vegetable kingdom, as in grapes, mountain-ash berries, etc., and obtained from tartar as a white crystalline substance, C2H2(OH)2.(CO2H)2, having a strong pure acid taste. It is used in medicine, in dyeing, calico printing, photography, etc., and also as a substitute for lemon juice. Called also dextro-tartaric acid. (b) By extension, any one of the series of isomeric acids (racemic acid, levotartaric acid, inactive tartaric acid) of which tartaric acid proper is the type. [ 1913 Webster ]