(now archaic) A starling.

The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag. / (baseball) A starting pitcher.

One who is thin from lack of food.

Starving; suffering from starvation. / Meagre; scanty.

Any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.

(intransitive) To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish. / (transitive) To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.

(intransitive, obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away. / (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating. / (intransitive) To be very hungry.

(intransitive) To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.

A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.

(uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.