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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

Same as

[Obs.]

astart ‎(third-person singular simple present astarts, present participle astarting, simple past and past participle astarted)

(transitive, obsolete) To cause to start; startle; start up; jump.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
  oft out of her bed she did astart, / As one with vew of ghastly feends affright [...].
(intransitive) To start up.
(obsolete) To get away, escape; escape from.
(intransitive) To be escaped from.