starstone (stars ton)

1. Same as asteriated sapphire (see sapphire ) and asteria.-2. A cut II. trans. 1. To rouse suddenly into action, motion, or flight, as a beast from its lair, a nest; cause to come suddenly into view, action, play, flight, or the like: as, to start game; to start the detectives. Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Cæsar. Shak ., J. C., i. 2. 147. at Philip, but had started quite other J. Hawthorne, Dust, p. 168. She had aimed. game. 2. To originate; begin; set in motion; set going; give the first or a new impulse to: as, to start a fire; to start a newspaper, a school, or a new busine ; to start a controversy. One of our society of the Trumpet.. started last night a notion which I thought had reason in it. Steele, Tatler, No. 202. start 3. To cause to set out, or to provide the means or take the steps nece ary to enable (one) to set out or embark, as on an errand, a journey, enterprise, career, etc.: as, to start one's son in busine ; to start a party on an expedition. -4. To loosen, or cause to loosen or lose hold; cause to move from its place: as, to start a plank; to start a tooth; to start an anchor.-5. To set flowing, as liquor from a cask; pour out: as, to start wine into another cask.-6. To alarm; disturb suddenly; startle. You boggle shrewdly, every feather starts you. Shak., All's Well, v. 3. 232. The queen, being a little started hereat, said, "À moi femme et parler ains i?" "To me a woman and say so?" Lord Herbert of Cherbury , Life (ed. Howells), p. 162. To start a butt. See butt To start a tack rasheet stump, to begin to build a ve el; build an entirely new ve el, as from repairing an old one; hence, little. To ve el to furu distinguished fplete