astale

t. [O. Fr. estailer = to display, to show.] To deck or set out. ( Scotch.) "Syne hynt to ane hie hall, That wes astalit with pall." Gawan & Gol., 1. 5. (Jamie son.) *a-stand-an, v.i. [A.S. a stand an = to stand out, to endure.) To stand up. ( Layamon , i. 277.) *a-start', ', * a-stert', * æt-stür-těn, * at-stir-těn, * ět-stër-těn (pret. * a-start-ed, * a-stert', et-sturte, * at-sturt'e), v.i. & t . [Eng. a; start .] A. In trans.: To start from, to escape; to flee, to get free. "That oft out of her bed she did astart, As one with view of ghostly feends affright." Spenser: F. Q., III. ii. 29. "He to his hous is gon with sorweful herte. He saith, he may not from his deth asterte ." Chaucer: C. Т. , 11,333-4. B. Transitive : 1. To cause to start, to startle, to terrify, to affright; to befall, to come upon suddenly. "No daunger there the shepheard can astert ." Spenser: Shep. Cal . , xi IMG:content-0835.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Zool.: A genus of bivalve molluscs belonging to the family Cyprinidæ. They have 2-2 hinge teeth, and are suborbicular, compre ed, thick, smooth, or concentrically furrowed shells. In 1875, Tate estimated the recent species known at twenty and the fo il at 285. The former belong to the temperate and arctic zones, and the latter to the rocks from the Carboniferous formation upward.