squeezed countenance, a stiff formal gait, or a The balls of his broad eyes roll'd in his heado singularity of manners? Szeift. And glar'd betwixt a yellow and a red : STA'RCHER. n. s. [from starch.] One He look'd a lion with a gloomy stare, whose trade is to starch. And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair. STA'RCHLY. adv. [from starch.] Stiffly; 2. [sturnus, Latin.] Starling; a bird. Dryden. precisely. STA'RCHNESS. 1. s. [from starch.] Stiff- Sra'rer.n. r. (from stare.] One who looks with fixed eyes. ness; preciseness. One self-approving hour whole years outTO STARE. v. n. [rtanian, Sax. sterren, weighs Dutch. Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas. Pope. 1. To look with fixed eyes; to look with Sra'RFISH, n. s. [star and fish.] A fish wonder, impudence, confidence, stupi branching out into several points. dity, or horrour, This has a ray of one species of English starHer modest eyes, abashed to behold fish. Woodwarda So many gazers as on her do stare, Upon the lowly ground affixed are. Spenser. STA'RGAZER. n. s. [star and gaze.] Aa Their staring eyes, sparkling with fervent fire, astronomer, or astrologer. In contempt. And ugly shapes, did nigh the man dismay, Let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the That, were it not for shame, he would retire. monthly prognosticators, stand up and save thee. Spenser. Isaiah. Look not big, nor stare nor fret: A stargazer, in the height of his celestial obI will be master of what is mine own. Sbaksp. servations, stumbled into a ditch. L'Estrange They were never satisfied with staring upon STA'R HAWK. n. s. [astur, Latin.] A sort their masts, sails, cables, ropes, and tacklings. Abbot. Ainsworth. STARK. adj. [reenc, seanc, Saxon ; The tread of many feet steering this way ; sterck, Dutch.) Perhaps my enemies, who come to staré At my affliction, and perhaps t'insult. Milton. 1. Stiff; strong; rugged. A satyr, that comes staring from the woods, His heavy head devoid of careful cark, Must not at first speak like an orator. Waller. Whose senses all were straight benumb'd and And, while he stares around with stupid eyes, stark. Spenser, His brows with berries and his temples dyes. Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies. Shaksp. The north is not so stark and cold. Ben Jonson. Art thou of Bethlem's noble college free, So soon as this spring is become stark enough, Stark staring mad, that thou shouldst tempt the it breaks the case in two, and slings the seed. Dryden. Derbam, Struggling, and wildly staring on the skies 2. Deep ; full ; still. With scarce recover'd sight. Dryden. Consider the stark security The commonwealth is in now; the whole senate He star'd, and rollid his haggard eyes around. Sleepy, and dreaming no such violent blow, Dryden. Ben Jonseth Break out in crackling fames to shun thy 3. Mere; simple; plain ; gross. snare, To turn stark fools, and subjects fit Or hiss a dragon, or a tyger store. Dryden. For sport of boys, and rabble wit. Hudibras. Why dost thou not He pronounces the citation stark nonsense. 'Try the virtue of that gorgon face, Collier. To stare me into statue? Dryden. STARK.adv. Is used to intend or augment I was unluckily prevented by the presence of a bear, which, as I approached with my present, the signification of a word : as, stark threw his eyes in my way, and stared me out of mad, mad in the highest degree. It is my resolution. Addison. now little used but in low language. The wit at his elbow gave him a touch upon Then are the best but stark naught; for open the shoulder, and stared him in the face with so suspecting others, comes of secret condemning bewitching a grin, that the whistler relaxed his theinselves. Sidney. Sbres. Addison. The fruitful-headed beast, amaz'd At fishing beams of that sun-shiny shield, Became stark blind, and all his senses doz'd, Gods! shall the ravisher display your hair, That down he tumbled. Sperser. While the fops envy, and the ladies stare? Pope. Men and women go stark naked. Abbot. Through nature and through art she rang'd, They both dance much; and, for more nimAnd gracefully her subject chang'd : bleness, sometimes stark naked. Heylin. In vain; her hearers had no share He is stark mad, who ever says In all she spoke, except to stare. Swift. That he hath been in love an hour. Donne. 2. To Start in the face. To be undeniably Those seditious, that seemed moderate before, evident. became desperate, and those who were desperate seemed stark mad; whence tumults, confused Is it possible for people without scruple to of hallooings and howlings. fend against the law which they carry about Hayward. Who, by the most cogent arguments, will disthem in indelible characters, and that stares robe himself at once of all his old opinions, and them in the face whilst they are breaking it? turn himself out stark naked in quest of new Locke. Locke. 3. To stand out prominent. In came squire South, all dressed up in fesTake off all the staring straws and jaggs in the thers and ribbons, stark staring mad, brandishhive, and make them smouth. Mortimer. ing his sword. Arbuthnot, STARE. n. s. (from the verb.] STARKLY. adv. [from stark.] Ștify i 1. Fixed look. strongly, sea ? moon. As fast lock'd up in sleep as guiltless labour, Heav'n and earth's compacted frame, When it lies starkly in the traveller's bones. And flowing waters, and the starry flame, Sbakspeare. And both the radiant lights, one common soul STA'RLESS. adj. (from star.] Having no Inspires and feeds, and animates the whole. light of stars. Dryder. A boundless continent, 3. Resembling stars. Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Tears had dimm'd the lustre of her starry Starless expos'd. Milton. Shakspeare . Cato might give them furlos for another ST A'RRING. adj. (stellans, Latin ; from world; star.] Shining with stellar light; blazBut we, like sentries, are oblig'd to stand ing with sparkling light. In starless nights, and wait th' appointed hour. Such his fèll glances as the fatal light Dryder, Of starring comets that look kingdoms dead. STA'R LIGHT. n. s. [star and light.] Lustre Crasbats. of the stars. STA'RSHOOT. n. S. (star and shoot. ] An Sbakspeare. the vulgar called a starsboot, as if it remained upon the extinction of a falling star. Boyle. Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. Milton. TO START. v. n. (startzen, German.) They danc'd by starlight and the friendiy 1. To feel a sudden and involuntary twitch Dryden. or motion of the animal frame, on the STARLIGHT. adj. Lighted by the stars. apprehension of danger. Owis, that mark the setting sun, declare Starting is an apprehension of the thing fearA starlight evening and a morning fair. Dryd. ed, and in that kind it is a motion of shrinking; STA'R LIKE. adj. (star and like.] and likewise an inquisition, in the beginning, 1. Stellated; having various points, re- what the matter should be, and in that kind it sembling a star in lustre. is a motion of erection ; and, therefore, when Nightshade tree rises with a wooden stem, a man would listen suddenly to any thing, he green-leaved, and has starlike flowers. Mortimer. starteth; for the starting is an erection of the spirits to attend. Bacon. 2. Bright; illustrious. The having turned many to righteousness A shape appea 'd shall confer a starlike and immortal brightness. Bending to look on me: I started back, It started back, Sbakspeart. a friend, from whom he started to meet the heart; But still he held his purpose to depart. Dryden. slightest appearance of that servile kindness. Fell. I start as from some dreadful dream, STA'RLING. n. s. [stærling, Saxon; stur. And often ask myself if yet awake. Dryden. nus.) A small singing bird. As his doubts decline, I will have a starling taught to speak He dreads just vengeance, and he starts at sin. Nothing but Mortimer, and give it him, Dryden. To keep his anger still in motion. Shakspeare. He starts at every new appearance, and is alSTA'R PAVED. adj. [star and pave.] Stud. ways waking and solicitous for fear of a surprize. ded with stars. Collier. In progress through the road of heav'n star. 2. To rise suddenly : commonly with up. pavid. Milton. There started up, in queen Elizabeth's reign, STA'R PROOF. adj. [star and proof.] Im. a new presbyterian sect, which tendered a form pervious to starlight. of discipline to the queen and to the state. Under the shady roof Of branching elm starproof. Milton. Charm'd by these strings, trees starting from the ground STA'R-READ. n. s. (star and read.] Doc Have follow'd with delight the powerful sound. trine of the stars; astronomy. Spenser. Roscommon. ST A'RRED. adj. [from star.] They starting op beheld the heavy sight. Dryd. 3. Influenced by the stars with respect to The mind often works in search of some hidfortune. den ideas, though sometimes they start up in our My third comfort, minds of their own accord. Locke. Starr's most unluckily, is from my breast Might Dryden bless once more our eyes, Hai'd out to murder. Sbakspeare. New Blackmores and new Milbourns must arise; %. Decorated with stars. Nay, should great Homer lift his awful head, That starr'd Ethiop queen, that strove Zoilus again would start up from the dead. Popes To set her beauty's praise above 3. To move with sudden quickness. The sea-nymphs. Milton. The flowers, call'd out of their beds, Start, and raise up their drowsy heads. Cleavci. His sceptre, starr'd with golden studs around. A spirit fit to siart into an empire, And look the world to law. Dryden. STA'RRY. adj. [from star.] She at the summons roll'd her eyes around, And snatch'd the starting serpents from the 1. Decorated with stars ; abounding with ground. Pope. stars. 4. To shrink; to winch. Paphne wond'ring mounts on high, Above the clouds, above the starry sky! Pope. What trick, what starting hole, canst thou find out, to hide thee from this open shame? 2. Consisting of stars; stellar. Sbakspear. Such is his will, that paints With trial fire touch me his finger end : · The earth with colours fresh, If he be chaste, the flame will back descend The darkest skies with store And turn him to no pain ; but, if he start, Of størry lights. Spenser. It is the fiesh of a corrupted heart. Sbakspeare W bite. 5. To deviate. 4. To discover; to bring within pursuit. The lords and gentlemen take all the meanest The sensual men agree in pursuit of every sort upon themselves; for they are best able to pleasure they can start. Temple. bring them in, whensoever any of them startetb 5. To put suddenly out of place. out. Spenser. One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of Th' old drudging sun from his long-beaten way the clavicle from the sternon. Wischer, Shall at thy voice start and misguide the day; The jøcund orbs shall break their measur'd pace, START. n. s. [from the verb.) And stubborn poles change their allotted place. I. A motion of terrour ; a sudden twitch Cowley. or contraction of the frame from fear or I rank him with the prodigies of fame, alarm, With things which start from nature's common These flaws and starts would well become rules, A woman's story at a winter's fire, With bearded infants, and with teeming mules. Authoriz'd by her grandam. Sbakspeare Greech. Keep your soul to the work when ready to The fright awaken’d Arcite with a stari ; Against his bosom bounc'd bis heaving heart. start aside, unless you will be a slave to every Dryden. wild imagination. Watts. 6. To set out from the barrier at a race. 2. A sudden rousing to action; excite ment. It seems to be rather a terminus a quo than a How much had I to do to calm his rage! true principle, as the starting post is none of the horse's legs. Now fear I this will give it start again. Shakra Boyle. Should some god tell me, that I should be born 3. Sally; vehement eruption; sudden efAnd cry, again, his offer I should scorn; fusion. Asham'd, when I have ended well my race, Thou art like enough, through vassal fear, To be led back to my first starting place. Denb. Base inclination, and the start of spleen, When from the goal they start, To fight against me under Percy's pay. Sbakoita The youthful charioteers with heaving heart Several starts of fancy, off-hand, look well Rush to the race. Dryder. enough: but bring them to the test, and there The clangor of the trumpet gives the sign; is nothing in 'em. L'Estrange. At once they start, advancing in a line. Dryden. Are they not only to disguise our passions, 7. To set out on any pursuit. To set our looks at variance with our thoughts, Fair course of passion, where two lovers start To check the starts and sallies of the soul? Addis. And run together, heart still yok'd with heart. We were well enough pleased with this start Waller. of thought. Addison. People, when they have made themselves 4. Sudden fit; intermitted action. weary, set up their rest upon the very spot Methought her eyes had cross'd her tongue; where they started. L'Estrange. For she did speak in starts distractedly, Sbakap. When two start into the world together, he Thy forms are studied arts, that is thrown behind, unless his mind proves Thy subtile ways be narrow straits, generous, will be displeased with the other. Thy curtesy but sudden starts, Collier. And what thou call'st thy gifts are baits B. Fons. TO START. v. a. Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or ia 1. To alarm; to disturb suddenly; to a hurry; but all her motions are gradual. L'Estr. startle. An ambiguous expression, a little chagrin, or Direness, familiar to my slaught'rous thoughts, a start of passion, is not enough to take leave Cannot once start me. Shakspeare. Collier. Being full of supper and distemp’ring draughts, s. A quick spring or motion; a shoot ; a Upon malicious bravery dost thou come push. To start my quiet? Sbakspeare In strings, the more they are wound up and The very print of a fox-foot would have start- strained, and thereby, give a more quick start L'Estrange. back, the more treble is the sound; and the 2. To make to fly hastily from a hiding slacker they are, or less wound up, the baser is the sound. Bacon. place; to rouse by a sudden disturb Both cause the string to give a quicker starte Bacon. The blood more stirs How could water make those visible starts upe To rouse a lion than to start a hare. Slakspears. on freezing, but by some subtile freezing prinI started from its vernal bow'r ciple which as suddenly shoots into it. Grow. The rising game, and chac'd from flow'r to Aow'r. 6. First emission from the barrier; act of Pope. 3. To bring into motion ; to produce to setting out. You stand like greyhounds in the slips, view or notice ; to produce unexpect. Straining upon the start. Shakspeare. edly, All leapt to chariot, And every man then for the start cast in his Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Cæsar. Shaks. Chapmana What exception can possibly be started against If a man deal with another upon conditions, this stating? Hammond. the start of first performance is all. Bacon, It was unadvisedly done, when I was enforcing 2 weightier design, to start and follow another 7. To get the Start. To begin before of less moment. Spratt. another; to obtain advantage over an. The present occasion has started the dispute other. amongst us. Lesley. Get the start of the majestick world. Shaks). Insignificant cavils may be started against every All pretorian courts, if any of the parties be thing that is not capable of mathematical de- laid asleep, under pretence of artitrement, and monstrasion. Addison. the other party during that time doth cautelously I was engaged in conversation upon a subject get the start and advantage at common law, yec which the people love to start in discourse. the priturian court will set back ajl things in Addison. siwibu quo priuso Bucethe ed ye. ance. proper lot. Doubtless some other heart Wilmot had more scruples from religion to Will get tbe start; starile him, and would not have attained his end And, stepping in before, by any gross act of wickedness. Clarendon. Will take possession of the sacred store STARTLE.n. s. [from the verb.] Sudden Of bidden sweets. Crasbaw. alarm; shock; sudden impression of tertour. The squire had got so much the start, H' had to the lady done his errand, After having recovered from my first startle, I And told her all his tricks aforehand. Hudibras. was very well pleased at the accident. Spectator. She might have forsaken him, if he had not STA'R TUP. n. s. (start and up.] One that got the start of her. Dryden. comes suddenly into notice. The reason why the mathematicks and me- That young startup hath all the glory of my chanick arts have so much got the start in growth overthrow, Sbakspeare. of other sciences, may be resolved into this, that TO STARVE. V. n. [rteanfan, Saxon ; their progress hath not been retarded by that sterven, Dutch, to die.] reverential awe of former discoverers. Glanville. The French year has got the start of ours 1. To perish ; to be destroyed. Obsolete. To her came message of the murderment, more in the works of nature than in the new Wherein her guiltless friends should hopeless style. Addison, Fairfax. STA'RTER. n. s. [from start.] 2. To perish with hunger. It has with or 1. One that shrinks from his purpose. for before the cause; of less properly. Stand to it boldly, and take quarter, Were the pains of honest industry, and of To let thee see I am no starter. Hudibras. starving with hunger and cold, set before us, no 2. One who suddenly moves a question or body would doubt which to chuse. Locke. objection. An animal that starves of hunger, dies feverish 3. A dog that rouses the game. and delirious. Arbutbnot. If Sheridan was not the staunchest hound in 3. To be killed with cold. It has with or the pack, he was at least the best starter. Delany. for before the cause. STA'RTINGLY. adv. [from starting. ] Have I seen the naked starve for cold, By sudden fits; with frequent intermis While avarice my charity controllid ? Sandys. 4. To suffer extreme poverty. sion. Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed : Why do you speak so startingly and rash? Sbak. STA'RTINOPOST. n. s. (start and post.] What then! Is the reward of virtue bread? Pope. Barrier from which the race begins. 5. To be destroyed with cold. Had the seeds of the pepper-plant been borne TO STA'RTLE. v. ». [from start.] To from Java to these northern countries, they shrink ; to move on, feeling a sudden must have starved for want of sun. Woodward. impression of alarm or terrour. TOSTARVE. V. a. The startling steed was seiz'd with sudden 1. To kill with hunger. fright, I cannot blame his cousin king, Ard, bounding, o'er the pommel cast the knight. That wish'd him on the barren mountains Dryden. Sbakspeare. Hunger and thirst, or guns and swords, Back on herself, and startles at destruction? Addis. Give the same death in different words: My frighted thoughts run back, To push this argument no further, And startle into madness at the sound. Addison, To starve a man in law is murther. Prier. TO STA'RTLE, v. a. If they had died through fasting, when meat was at hand, they would have been guilty of 1. To fright; to shock; to impress with starving themselves. sudden terrour, surprise, or alarm. Such whisp'ring wak'd her, but with startled eye 2. To subdue by famine. Thy desires On Adam. Milton. Are wolfish, bloody, starv'd, and ravenous. To hear the lark begin his flight, Sbakspeare. . And singing startle the dull night He would have worn her out by slow degrees, From his watch-tower in the skies, As men by fasting starve th’untam'd disease. Till the dappled dawn doth rise. Milton. The supposition that angels assume bodies needs Dryden. Attalus endeavoured to starve Italy, by stop. not startle us, since some of the most ancient and most learned fathers seemed to believe that they ping their convoy of provisions from Africa. Arbutbno. had bodies. Locke. Incest! Oh name it not! 3. To kill with cold. The very mention shakes my inmost soul : From beds of raging fire to starve in ice The gods are startled in their peaceful mansions, Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine And nature sickens at the shocking sound. Smitb. Immoveable, infix d, and frozen round. Milton. His books had been solemnly burnt at Rome 4. To deprive of force or vigour. as heretical : some people, he found, were start The powers of their minds are starved by disded at it; so he was forced boldly to make re- use, and have lost that reach and strength which prisals, to buoy up their courage. Atterbury. nature fitted them to receive. Locke Now the leaf ST A'R VELING. adj. [from starve.] Hun. The thronging clusters thin Tbomson. Void of sufficient sustenance, will yield 2. To deter; to make to deviate. A slender autumn. They would find occasions enough, upon the Poor starveling bard, how small thy gains ! account of his known affections to the king's ser- How unproportion'd to thy pains ! Swift vice, from which it was not possible to remove STA'RVELING. N. s. An animal thin and.. * startle, himn. Clarendon, weak for want of nourishment. Popes Philips If I hang, I 'll make a fat pair of gallows; for The state hath given you licence to stay on old sir Sohn hangs with me, and be's no starve- land for the space of six weeks. Bacon ling. Sbakspeare. li is better the kingdom should be in good Now thy alms is given, the letter's read; estate, with particular loss to many of the peoThe body risen again, the which was dead; ple, than that all the people should be well, and And thy poor starveling bountifully fed. Donne. the state of the kingdom altogether lost. The fat ones would be making sport with the Hayward lean, and calling them starvelings. L'Estrange. It is a bad exchange to wound a man's own STA'RWORT. n. s. [aster, Lat.] A plant ; conscience, thereby to salve state sores. King Cbarles. elecampane. Miller, For you we stay'd, as did the Grecian state STA'TARY, adj. [from status, Lat.] Fixed; Till Alexander came. Waller. settled. Since they all live by begging, it were better The set and statory times of paring of nails, for the state to keep them. Graunt, and cutting of hair, is but the continuation of These are the realms of unrelenting fate; ancient superstition. Brown. And awful Rhadamanthus rules the state : STATE. n. s. [status, Latin.] He hears and judges. Drydere 1. Condition ; circumstances of nature or 7. Hence single state, in Sbakspeare, for infortune. dividuality. I do not Infer as if I thought my sister's state My thought, whose murther yet is but fag tastical, Secure. Milton. Shakes so my single state of man, that function I found the whole city highly concerned for Is smother'd in surmise. Macbeth, the hazardous state of Candia, which was lost 8. Civil power, not ecclesiastical. soon after. Dominico Cantarini, the present The same criminal may be absolved by the duke, was sedulous in that affair. Brown. Their sins have the aggravation of being sins church, and condemned by the state; absolved or pardoned by the state, yet censured by the against grace, and forsaking and departing from church. Leslege God; which respect makes the state of apostates, as the most unexcusable, so the most desperately 9. A republick; a government not modangerous state. Hammond, narchical. Thus have his prayers for others altered and They feared nothing from a state so narrom amended the state of his own heart. Law. in compass of land, and so weak, that the strength Relate what Latium was; of their armies has ever been made up of foreign Declare the past and present state of things. troops. Temples Dryden. 10. Rank; condition ; quality. Like the papists is your poet's state, Fair dame, I am not to you known, Poor and disarm's. Popo. Though in your state of honour I am perfett. 2. Modification of any thing. Sbakspeurz. Keep the state of the question in your eye. High state the bed is where misfortune lies. Boyle. Fairfax. 3. Stationary point; crisis ; height ; point Ir. Solemn pomp ; appearance of greatfrom which the next movement is re ness. gression. When in triumphant state the British mose, The deer, that endureth the womb but eight True to herself, shall barb'rous aid refuse. Roscommon. months, and is complete at six years, cannot live much more than thirty, as having passed two There kings receiv'd the marks of sov'reign general motions, that is, its beginning and in pow'r: crease; and having but two more to run through, In state the monarchs march’d; the fictors bore that is, its state and declination. Brown. The awful axes and the rods before. Dryden. Tumours have their several degrees and times; Let my attendants wait: I 'll be alone; as beginning, augment, state, and declination. Where least of state, there most of love is showel Wiseman Dryden. 4. [estat, Fr.] Estate ; signiory; pos To appear in their robes would be a trouble session. Collier. some piece of state. At home surrounded by a servile crowd, Strong was their plot, Prompt to abuse, and in detraction loud; Their states far off, and they of wary wit. Abroad begirt with men, and swords, and spens, Daniel. His very state acknowledging his fears. Prior. s. Mode of government. If God has delivered me up to evil spirits, to No state can be named wherein any part of be dragged by them to places of torments, ceuld the body of those imperial laws hath the just it be any comfort to me that they found me upforce of a law, otherwise than as custom hath on a bed of state? Late particularly induced it. Selden. 12. Dignity; grandeur. The community; the publick; the She instructed him how he should keep state commonwealth. and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes. If any thing more than your sport Bason. Did move your greatness, and this noble state, The swan rows her state with oary feet. Mik. To call on him, he hopes it is no other He was staid, and in his gait But for your health's sake. Sbakspeare. Preserv'd a grave majestick state. Birtler A state's anger Such cheerful modesty, such humble state, Should not takę knowledge either of fools or Moves certain love. Walter. women. Ben Jonson. Can this imperious lord forget to reign, I hear her talk of state matters and the senate. Quit all his state, descend, and serve again? Ben Jonson. Pote. What he got by rtune, Fie will consider, not what arts, or methods, k was the state that now must make his right. or application, will soonest make hiin richer 3:18 Daniel, greater than his breuen, or remove him from |