Starch
[stɑːtʃ] or [stɑrtʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering.
(noun.) a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles.
(verb.) stiffen with starch; 'starch clothes'.
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Definition
(a.) Stiff; precise; rigid.
(n.) A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as 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.
(n.) Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.
(v. t.) To stiffen with starch.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Stiff, STARCHED.
Typist: Lucinda
Definition
n. the pure fecula or white farinaceous matter of vegetables yielding a translucent jelly used for stiffening clothes in the laundry: stiffness formality.—adj. stiff rigid formal.—adj. Starched stiffened with starch: formal.—adv. Starch′edly.—ns. Starch′edness; Starch′er; Starch′-hy′acinth a plant allied to the hyacinth so called from the smell of the flower.—adv. Starch′ily in a starch or stiff manner: formally.—ns. Starch′iness the state or quality of being starchy: stiffness of manner: formality; Starch′-su′gar glucose.—adj. Starch′y consisting of or like starch: stiff: precise.
Typist: Naomi
Examples
- Two-fifths part of dextrine (or the same quantity of gelatine) may be substituted for the 2 parts of starch. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Take one table-spoonful of starch, dissolve it in cold water, and when the boiled starch gets lukewarm pour it over it, stir well, and strain. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Be careful that the starch is rubbed in until the right side is wet all over. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Broadly speaking, plants furnish the carbohydrates, that is, starch and sugar; animals furnish the fats and proteids. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The quantity of the starch or dextrine or gelatine may be changed according as the tissues are to be more or less stiff. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I felt bad but did not fret I bear my troubles well but I do wish Hannah would put more starch in my aprons and have buckwheats every day. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The cloth is dipped into a body of starch, or the same is applied by hand, and then the superfluous starch squeezed out as the clothes are passed through the rollers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Only you can't do much in a starched shirt. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She listened, watching, hoping no one would hear the starched linen crackle. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You've kept close to that starched-up Englishwoman all day, and now you snub me. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I must differ in opinion with you, Lord Hertford, said he, in his starched pragmatical manner. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- While the maid was busy crimping or starching, I took an Italian iron from the fire, and applied the light scarlet glowing tip to my arm. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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