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The starchy matters, on the other hand, are completely changed, and devoted to purposes which will be immediately explained.
ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRYTHOMAS ANDERSON
Wash two chupas of rice and cook it in water until it becomes very soft and starchy.
PHILIPPINE MATSHUGO H. MILLER
The part used for food is the large root, which is stored with proteid and starchy matter.
PRAIRIE SMOKE (SECOND EDITION, REVISED)MELVIN RANDOLPH GILMORE
The flour of any species of corn, pulse, tuber, or starchy root.
Starchy foods compose probably half the diet of the average human being.
Jefferson Poindexter, resplendent in starchy white jacket and white apron, came to the door.
THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMMIRVIN S. COBB
This rogue, himself a mongrel grown fat in the slums of three continents, held starchy notions on the subject of pants.
WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDSJOHN RUSSELL
I have noticed that you are inclined to be a little chesty and starchy around the office.
LETTERS FROM A SELF-MADE MERCHANT TO HIS SONGEORGE HORACE LORIMER
The intensity of the reaction is an indication of the amount of starchy matter used.
DETECTION OF THE COMMON FOOD ADULTERANTSEDWIN M. BRUCE
The starchy materials generally used for this purpose are plain flour, browned flour, corn starch, and arrowroot flour.
WOMAN'S INSTITUTE LIBRARY OF COOKERY, VOL. 3WOMAN'S INSTITUTE OF DOMESTIC ARTS AND SCIENCES
WORDS RELATED TO STARCHY
- Victorian
- affected
- artificial
- austere
- bigoted
- conventional
- demure
- fastidious
- finicky
- genteel
- illiberal
- mincing
- narrow
- narrow-minded
- offish
- overexact
- overmodest
- overnice
- precise
- pretentious
- priggish
- prim
- prissy
- proper
- puritanical
- rigid
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- severe
- simpering
- square
- squeamish
- starchy
- stern
- stiff
- stilted
- straitlaced
- stuffy
- uptight
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