A stiff, formal manner; formality.
Fortitude.
Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener
A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of 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.
To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
Stiff; precise; rigid.
The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.
The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.