- One who provides information - Origin - Origin or starting point - Point where something begins - Sudden spring - The place where something begins - The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
- Beginning - Birth - Commencement - Start - The starting point of an institution or activity - Beginning; commencement; initiation. - Reception; a taking in.
- Bigness - Height of a wave - State of being ample; extent of surface or space;
largeness of dimensions; size. - Largeness, in a figurative sense; breadth; abundance;
fullness. - Of extent of capacity or intellectual powers. - Of extent of means or resources. - The arc of the horizon between the true east or west
point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting.
At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it
is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern,
when north or south of the equator.
- Contort - Peculiarity - A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an
artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a
pettifogger. - A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice. - A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit. - An irregular air; as, light quirks of music. - A piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or
floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink.
- St. Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with
a diffused inflammation of the skin, which, starting usually from a
single point, spreads gradually over its surface. It is usually
regarded as contagious, and often occurs epidemically.
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