noun. A naturally abundant nutrient carbohydrate, (C₆H₁₀O₅)_n, found chiefly in the seeds, fruits, tubers, roots, and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice, and varying widely in appearance according to source but commonly prepared as a white amorphous tasteless powder.

noun. Any of various substances, such as natural starch, used to stiffen cloth, as in laundering.

noun. Foods having a high content of starch, as rice, breads, and potatoes.

noun. undefined

noun. Stiff behavior.

noun. Vigor; mettle.

transitive verb. To stiffen with starch.

Strong; hard; tough.

Rigid; hence, precise.

To stiffen with starch.

noun. A proximate principle of plants, having the formula C₆H₁₀O₅. or a multiple of that formula.

noun. A preparation of commercial starch with boiling (or less frequently cold) water, used in the laundry or factory for stiffening linen or cotton fabrics before ironing.

noun. A stiff, formal manner; starchedness.

adjective. Stiff; precise; rigid.

noun. 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.

noun. Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.

noun. the grape hyacinth; -- so called because the flowers have the smell of boiled starch. See under Grape.

transitive verb. To stiffen with starch.

noun. 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.

noun. Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.

noun. A stiff, formal manner; formality.

noun. Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener

verb. To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.

adjective. 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 textiles

verb. stiffen with starch

noun. a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering