started
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
start \start\ (st[aum]rt), v. i. [imp. & p. p. started; p. pr. & vb. n. starting.] [OE. sterten; akin to D. storten to hurl, rush, fall, G. st["u]rzen, OHG. sturzen to turn over, to fall, Sw. st["o]rta 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. [root]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]