Starch(a.) Stiff; precise; rigid.
Starch(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.
Starch(n.) Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.
Starch(v. t.) To stiffen with starch.
Starched(a.) Stiffened with starch.
Starched(a.) Stiff; precise; formal.
Starched(imp. & p. p.) of Starch
Starching(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Starch
Starchly(adv.) In a starched or starch manner.
Starchness(n.) Of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness.
Words within starchness