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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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1828 Definition
STARCH, n. [G., strength, starch; strong. See Stare and Steer.] A substance used to stiffen linen and other cloth. It is the fecula of flour , or a substance that subsides from water mixed with wheat flour. It is sometimes made from potatoes. Starch forms the greatest portion of farinaceous substances, particularly of wheat flour, and it si the chief aliment of bread.
STARCH, a. Stiff; precise; rigid.
STARCH, v.t. To stiffen with starch.
1913 Definition
Stiff;
precise; rigid.
[R.] Killingbeck. 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.
* Starch is a carbohydrate, being the typical amylose, C6H10O5, and is detected by the fine blue color given to it by free iodine. It is not fermentable as such, but is changed by diastase into dextrin and maltose, and by heating with dilute acids into dextrose. Cf. Sugar, Inulin, and Lichenin. 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. To stiffen with starch.
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