a. rare. [f. START v. + -ISH.] Apt to start or jib.
1730. Bailey (fol.), Startish, Startly, apt to start as some Horses, &c.
1768. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 203. Sometimes he [the horse] may prove startish or restive, turning out of the way, or running into a pond to drink.
1791. Nairne, Poems, 79. The startish beast took fright, and flop The mad-brain’d rider tumbled, neck and crop!
