Word Meanings - STARCHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.

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• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• STARCHER
  One who starches.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• 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.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• STIFF
  Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. Totten. 8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• STIFFTAIL
  The ruddy duck.
• CONSISTORY
  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
• STARCHED
  1. Stiffened with starch. 2. Stiff; precise; formal. Swift.
• STIFFISH
  Somewhat stiff.
• STIFFNESS
  The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. South.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• STARCHLY
  In a starched or starch manner.
• STARCHNESS
  Of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• CONSISTENT
  1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous;
• STARCHWORT
  The cuckoopint, the tubers of which yield a fine quality of starch.
• STIFF-NECKED
  Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people. Ex. xxxii. 9.
• RESTIFF
  Restive.
• RESTIFFNESS
  Restiveness.
• ARISTARCH
  A severe critic. Knowles.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• ARISTARCHIAN
  Severely critical.
• INCONSISTENCY
  1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility. There is a perfect inconsistency between