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Whitecap :: Whitecap (n.) The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead.

Vegetate :: Vegetate (v. i.) To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate..

Start :: 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..

Upset :: Upset (a.) Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold..

Startle :: Startle (v. t.) To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise..

Abraid :: Abraid (v. t. & i.) To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out..

Recoil :: Recoil (n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood..

Brachystochrone :: Brachystochrone (n.) A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid..

Redtail :: Redtail (n.) The European redstart.

Startlingly :: Startle (n.) A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger..

Startful :: Starter (n.) A dog that rouses game.

Sharp :: Sharp (adv.) Precisely; exactly; as, we shall start at ten o'clock sharp..

Startle :: Startling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Startl.

Resile :: Resile (v. i.) To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

Commencement :: Commencement (n.) The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.

Start :: Start (v. i.) To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start business..

Dissilient :: Dissilient (a.) Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp..

Parvenu :: Parvenu (n.) An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.

Subsultus :: Subsultory (a.) Bounding; leaping; moving by sudden leaps or starts.

Handicap :: Handicap (n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like..

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