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Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality. Addison. Starch hyacinth (Bot.), the grape hyacinth; -- so called because the flowers have the smell of boiled starch. See under Grape.

Stiffened with starch.

The quality or state of being starched; stiffness in manners; formality.

One who starches.

In a starched or starch manner.

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

The cuckoopint, the tubers of which yield a fine quality of starch.

Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.

A severe critic. Knowles.

Severely critical.

Severely criticism.

To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.

One who clearstarches.

Starch made from Indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc.

To free from starch; to make limp or pliable.

An office Dr. W. Smith.

the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.

Free from color; colorless; as, in Physiol. Chem., the achromic point of a starch solution acted upon by an amylolytic enzyme is the point at which it fails to give any color with iodine.

A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.

Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy.