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Definition of starch
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Dressing
::
Dressing
(n.) Gum,
starch,
and the like, used in
stiffening
or
finishing
silk,
linen,
and other
fabrics..
Starch
::
Starch
(a.)
Stiff;
precise;
rigid.
Lozenge
::
Lozenge
(n.) A small cake of sugar and
starch,
flavored,
and often
medicated.
--
originally
in the form of a
lozenge..
Tous-les-mois
::
Tous-les-mois
(n.) A kind of
starch
with very
large,
oval,
flattened
grains,
often sold as
arrowroot,
and
extensively
used for
adulterating
cocoa.
It is made from the
rootstocks
of a
species
of
Canna,
probably
C.
edulis,
the
tubers
of which are
edible
every month in the
year..
Carbohydrate
::
Carbohydrate
(n.) One of a group of
compounds
including
the
sugars,
starches,
and gums, which
contain
six (or some
multiple
of six)
carbon
atoms,
united
with a
variable
number
of
hydrogen
and
oxygen
atoms,
but with the two
latter
always
in
proportion
as to form
water;
as
dextrose,
C6H12O6..
Maranta
::
Maranta
(n.) A genus of
endogenous
plants
found in
tropical
America,
and some
species
also in
India.
They have
tuberous
roots
containing
a large
amount
of
starch,
and from one
species
(Maranta
arundinacea)
arrowroot
is
obtained.
Many kinds are
cultivated
for
ornament..
Starcher
::
Starchedness
(n.) The
quality
or state of being
starched;
stiffness
in
manners;
formality.
Osmund
::
Osmund
(n.) A fern of the genus
Osmunda,
or
flowering
fern. The most
remarkable
species
is the
osmund
royal,
or royal fern
(Osmunda
regalis),
which grows in wet or boggy
places,
and has large
bipinnate
fronds,
often with a
panicle
of
capsules
at the top. The
rootstock
contains
much
starch,
and has been used in
stiffening
linen..
Dextrin
::
Dextrin
(n.) A
translucent,
gummy,
amorphous
substance,
nearly
tasteless
and
odorless,
used as a
substitute
for gum, for
sizing,
etc., and
obtained
from
starch
by the
action
of heat,
acids,
or
diastase.
It is of
somewhat
variable
composition,
containing
several
carbohydrates
which
change
easily
to their
respective
varieties
of
sugar.
It is so named from its
rotating
the plane of
polarization
to the
right;
--
called
also
British
gum,
Alsace
gum,
gommelin,
leiocome,
etc. See
Achroodextrin,
and Ery
Xystarch
::
Xystarch
(n.) An
office/
having
the
superintendence
of the xyst.
Starchy
::
Starchwort
(n.) The
cuckoopint,
the
tubers
of which yield a fine
quality
of
starch..
Starchedness
::
Starched
(a.)
Stiff;
precise;
formal.
Inulin
::
Inulin
(n.) A
substance
of very wide
occurrence.
It is found
dissolved
in the sap of the roots and
rhizomes
of many
composite
and other
plants,
as
Inula,
Helianthus,
Campanula,
etc., and is
extracted
by
solution
as a
tasteless,
white,
semicrystalline
substance,
resembling
starch,
with which it is
isomeric.
It is
intermediate
in
nature
between
starch
and
sugar.
Called
also
dahlin,
helenin,
alantin,
etc..
Cuff
::
Cuff (n.) Any
ornamental
appendage
at the
wrist,
whether
attached
to the
sleeve
of the
garment
or
separate;
especially,
in
modern
times,
such an
appendage
of
starched
linen,
or a
substitute
for it of
paper,
or the
like..
Glucose
::
Glucose
(n.) A
variety
of sugar
occurring
in
nature
very
abundantly,
as in ripe
grapes,
and in
honey,
and
produced
in great
quantities
from
starch,
etc., by the
action
of heat and
acids.
It is only about half as sweet as cane
sugar.
Called
also
dextrose,
grape
sugar,
diabetic
sugar,
and
starch
sugar.
See
Dextrose..
Starchwort
::
Starchness
(n.) Of or
pertaining
to
starched
or
starch;
stiffness
of
manner;
preciseness.
Xyloidin
::
Xyloidin
(n.) A
substance
resembling
pyroxylin,
obtained
by the
action
of
nitric
acid on
starch;
--
called
also
nitramidin..
Tuber
::
Tuber (n.) A
fleshy,
rounded
stem or root,
usually
containing
starchy
matter,
as the
potato
or
arrowroot;
a
thickened
root-stock.
See
Illust.
of
Tuberous..
Acetone
::
Acetone
(n.) A
volatile
liquid
consisting
of three parts of
carbon,
six of
hydrogen,
and one of
oxygen;
pyroacetic
spirit,
--
obtained
by the
distillation
of
certain
acetates,
or by the
destructive
distillation
of
citric
acid,
starch,
sugar,
or gum, with
quicklime..
Paramylum
::
Paramylum
(n.) A
substance
resembling
starch,
found in the green
frothy
scum
formed
on the
surface
of
stagnant
water..
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