Starch is the stuff that makes your shirt collar look crisp and fresh. It's also the complex carbohydrate that potatoes and rice foods that are called starches have lots of.
Stiff; precise; rigid.
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 textile
Verb
stiffen with starch; "starch clothes"
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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Stiff; precise; rigid.
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.
To stiffen with starch.
Usage Examples
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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