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As a noun starch is
(uncountable) 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 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.
As a verb starch is
to apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
As an adjective starch is
stiff; precise; rigid.
