A startuppe, or clownish shoe.
Spenser.
Start"-up`, a. Upstart. [R.] Walpole.
Star*va"tion (?), n. The act of starving, or the state of being
starved.
This word was first used, according to Horace Walpole, by Henry Dundas,
the first Lord Melville, in a speech on American affairs in 1775, which
obtained for him the nickname of Starvation Dundas. "Starvation, we are
also told, belongs to the class of 'vile compounds' from being a
mongrel; as if English were not full of mongrels, and if it would not
be in distressing straits without them." Fitzed. Hall.
Starve (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Starved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Starving.]
[OE. sterven to die, AS. steorfan; akin to D. sterven, G. sterben, OHG.
sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil.] 1. To die; to perish. [Obs., except
in the sense of perishing with cold or hunger.] Lydgate.
In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy
mighty Hercules.
Chaucer.
2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very
indigent.
Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.
Pope.