Word Meanings - CLEARSTARCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• STARCHER
  One who starches.
• STIFFENING
  1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• CLEAR-HEADED
  Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
• HANDSEL
  1. To give a handsel to. 2. To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally. No contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath handseled it with prayer. Fuller.
• STARCH
  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
• MUSLIN
  A thin cotton, white, dyed, or printed. The name is also applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting and sheeting muslins. Muslin cambric. See Cambric. -- Muslin delaine, a light woolen fabric for women's dresses. See Delaine. (more
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• STARCHED
  1. Stiffened with starch. 2. Stiff; precise; formal. Swift.
• CLEAR-SEEING
  Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
• HANDSOMENESS
  The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.
• CLEARCOLE
  A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.
• HANDSPIKE
  A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
• CLEAR-CUT
  1. Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo. She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face. Tennyson. 2. Concisely and distinctly expressed.
• CLEARSTARCH
  To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.
• STARCHLY
  In a starched or starch manner.
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• BOOK MUSLIN
  1. A kind of muslin used for the covers of books. 2. A kind of thin white muslin for ladies' dresses.
• ARISTARCH
  A severe critic. Knowles.
• ARISTARCHIAN
  Severely critical.
• UNHANDSOME
  1. Not handsome; not beautiful; ungraceful; not comely or pleasing; plain; homely. Were she other than she is, she were unhandsome. Shak. I can not admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular . . . in the globe. Woodward. 2. Wanting noble
• BOTH-HANDS
  A factotum. He is his master's both-hands, I assure you. B. Jonson.