Word Meanings - START-UP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart. Shak. 2. A kind of high rustic shoe. Drayton. A startuppe, or clownish shoe. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to START-UP)

• RUSTICAL
  Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• RUSTICATE
  To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope.
• CLOWNISH
  Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv. Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill- bred; boorish; rustic;
• RUSTICITY
  The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric
• CLOWNISHNESS
  The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.
• COMES
  The answer to the theme in a fugue.
• RUSTICLY
  In a rustic manner; rustically. Chapman.
• RUSTICATED
  resembling rustic work. See Rustic work , under Rustic.
• NOTICEABLE
  Capable of being observed; worthy of notice; likely to attract observation; conspicous. A noticeable man, with large gray eyes. Wordsworth.
• RUSTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity. Milton. And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. Gray. She had a rustic, woodland air. Wordsworth. 2. Rude; awkward; rough;
• NOTICER
  One who notices.
• NOTICEABLY
  In a noticeable manner.
• COMESSATION
  A reveling; a rioting. Bp. Hall.
• UPSTART
  To start or spring up suddenly. Spenser. Tennyson.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• RUSTICATION
  Rustic work. (more info) 1. The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offence, by compelling him to leave the institution for a time.
• COMESTIBLE
  Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent. Some herbs are most comestible. Sir T. Elyot.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• FORENOTICE
  Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning. Rymer.