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A cloth band for a gown. [Obs.] With kerchief starched, and pinners clean. Gay.

Parched maize, ground, and mixed with sugar, etc. Mixed with water, it makes a nutritious beverage.

A region of country; a tract; a district. Over many a tract of heaven they marched, and many a province wide. Milton. Other provinces of the intellectual world. I. Watts.

To make rhymes, or verses. "Thou shalt no longer ryme." Chaucer. There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side, Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride. Pope.

Parched Indian corn, pounded up and mixed with sugar; -- called also yokeage. [Local, U.S.]

A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn.

To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up. Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching. Mortimer.

search with me. Shak. It sufficeth that they have once with care sifted the matter, and searched into all the particulars. Locke.

Capable of being searched.

Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.

The quality or state of being set; formality; obstinacy. "The starched setness of a sententious writer." R. Masters.

y shade upon thy right hand. Ps. cxxi. 5. Sleep under a fresh tree's shade. Shak. Let the arched knife well sharpened now assail the spreading shades of vegetables. J. Philips.

A white variety of the goldfish. Lepisma saccharina, which may infest houses, and eats starched clothing and sized papers. See Lepisma.

onally in Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.

In a starched or starch manner.

Of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness.

Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style. The French are open, familiar, and talkative; the Italians stiff, ceremonious, and reserved. Addison.

Having a figure resembling that of a bow; somewhat curved or arched.

Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted.

Deficient in moisture; dry; parched. A dry and thirsty land, where no water is. Ps. lxiii. 1. When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain pant. Addison.