To stiffen with starch.

Stiffened with starch.

The quality or state of being starched or starchy{5}; stiffness in manners; formality.

One who starches.

The quality or state of being starchy; stiffness in manners; formality.

In a starched or starch manner.

The quality or state of being starched or starchy{5}; stiffness of manner; preciseness.

The cuckoopint, the tubers of which yield a fine quality of starch.

Of or pertaining to starch.

Astrology.

The act of staring; a fixed look with eyes wide open.

To look with fixed eyes wide open, as through fear, wonder, surprise, impudence, etc.; to fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object.

One who stares, or gazes.

Starved.

The European redstart.

Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid.

One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer.

The act or practice of observing the stars with attention; contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or astronomy.

With a staring look.

To stiffen.

In a stark manner; stiffly; strongly.

The quality or state of being stark.

Being without stars; having no stars visible; as, a starless night.

Lighted by the stars, or by the stars only; as, a starlight night.

Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers.

Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera. The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra.

Lighted by the stars; starlight.

A fortune teller; an astrologer; -- used in contempt.

The European starling.

A curious American mole (Condylura cristata) having the nose expanded at the end into a stellate disk; -- called also star-nosed mole.

A nobleman who possessed a starosty.

A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life.

Impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm.

Adorned or studded with stars; bespangled.

The quality or state of being starry; as, the starriness of the heavens.

Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.

The light of the stars.

See Nostoc.

Asteriated sapphire.

To leap; to jump.

A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.

A Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union which provided for stepwise reductions in the number of nuclear weapons possessed by each country.

Upstart.

One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race.

Apt to start; skittish.

Aptness to start.

Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster.

a. n. from Start, v.

By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.

Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.

A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.

In a startling manner.

Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a horse.

The act of starving, or the state of being starved.

To destroy with cold.

In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously.

Hungry; lean; pining with want.

Any plant of the genus Aster. See Aster. A small plant of the genus Stellaria, having star-shaped flowers; star flower; chickweed.

In the Greek tragedy, a song of the chorus, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics.

A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation.

Of, pertaining to, or existing with reference to, a State of the American Union, as distinguished from the general government.

In a standing position; as, a lion statant.

Fixed; settled; steady; statary.

Fixedly; steadily.

Fixed; settled.

A statement; also, a document containing a statement.

See under State, n.

The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.

Settled; established; fixed.

At stated times; regularly.

Full of state; stately.

The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.

The building in which a State legislature holds its sessions; a State capitol.

Without state or pomp.

In a stately manner.

The quality or state of being stately.

Majestically; loftily.

The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or on paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.

The principal gold coin of ancient Greece. It varied much in value, the stater best known at Athens being worth about /1 2s., or about $5.35 (in 1890 value). The Attic silver tetradrachm was in later times called stater.

A magnificent room in a palace or great house.

In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty.

A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.

Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.

Becoming a statesman.

The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.

A woman concerned in public affairs.

A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train.

Resting; acting by mere weight without motion; as, statical pressure; static objects.

In a statical manner.

That branch of mechanics which treats of the equilibrium of forces, or relates to bodies as held at rest by the forces acting on them; -- distinguished from dynamics.

The act of one who states anything; statement; as, the statingof one's opinions.

To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coast of Africa.

Of or pertaining to a station.

The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.

One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.

A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere.

Belonging to, or sold by, a stationer.

The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy.

A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government.

Of or pertaining to statistics; as, statistical knowledge; statistical tabulation.

In the way of statistics.

One versed in statistics; one who collects and classifies facts for statistics.

The science which has to do with the collection, classification, and analysis of facts of a numerical nature regarding any topic. The science dealing with collection, tabulation, and analysis of facts respecting the condition of the people in a state.

See Statistics, 2.

Of or pertaining to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.

One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh-water species; -- also called winter buds.

Government by the state, or by political power, in distinction from government by ecclesiastical power.

A stationary part in or about which another part (the rotor) revolves, esp. when both are large; The stationary member of an electrical machine, as of an induction motor. The case inclosing a turbine wheel; the body of stationary blades or nozzles.

Shortened form of statistics{2} (b).

A statue.

One who practices the art of making statues.

To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue.

Adorned with statues.

Without a statue.

Like a statue; motionless.

Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque attitude.

In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue.

A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine.

To prop or support.