A starchy manner. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
starchy foods. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A few nuts, such as the acorn, cocoanut and chestnut, are very rich in starch, and these should be classified as starchy foods. From Wordnik.com. [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference
And rinse your mouth after sugary or starchy snacks. From Wordnik.com. [Tips for cleaner teeth] Reference
The best fruit, however, is filled with starchy matter. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
No starchy foods, or fats, or sugars should be allowed. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
You don't think that was too thick and starchy, do you?. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Bolshoi Potato Dancer] Reference
But no cookies or candy, none of that sweet, starchy stuff. From Wordnik.com. [It’s like this, cat] Reference
But other starchy foods, such as rice and cornmeal, do not. From Wordnik.com. [Giving Up Gluten to Lose Weight? Not So Fast] Reference
Repeat, examining a drop of starchy water washed from flour. From Wordnik.com. [Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value] Reference
A child should never eat much starchy food until four years old. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
If the tongue be coated avoid sugar, starchy foods and fresh milk. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
He's ditched his starchy stump speech and left the lectern behind. From Wordnik.com. [Dixie Donnybrook] Reference
The plants are put into a starchy paste and the mixture is dried. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management] Reference
Chestnuts are starchy nuts and contain less than one percent of oil. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948] Reference
Avoid fats, starchy cereals, flesh-producing vegetables and pastries. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
The plants are put into cakes of a starchy mixture and left moist. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management] Reference
But, he adds, there's hardly any room for starchy and sugary goodies. From Wordnik.com. [Health: Atkins Cheaters Beware] Reference
Franquette, which is much more starchy in make-up and much less nutty. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911] Reference
They may wish the queen were less starchy and Charles less autocratic. From Wordnik.com. [The Monarchy Will Prevail] Reference
Hair starchy and brown, swooping back, a dense halo-cloud, tint of gloss. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Guggenheim Visits Picasso's Bathroom] Reference
Fruit (juice), non-starchy vegetables (juice), milk (whey), commercial sugar. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management] Reference
What could Ingram change about Corker, the starchy former mayor of Chattanooga?. From Wordnik.com. [A GOP Balancing Act] Reference
Right down to a starchy white button-up blouse and alias nametag for “Sally.”. From Wordnik.com. [PodiumJen Reports: Tales from le podium at the Tour de France] Reference
Dextrine is formed on the crust of bread, or whenever potatoes or starchy foods are browned. From Wordnik.com. [Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value] Reference
Food containing much starchy matter, as white bread, rice, and all sugar, must be forbidden. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
Ten millennia ago, the banana was a big, starchy thing stuffed with seeds as hard as stones. From Wordnik.com. [Crisis In The Cupboard] Reference
Place a drop or two of the starchy water on the slide, cover with a cover glass, and examine. From Wordnik.com. [Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value] Reference
He chopped prices and brought some much-needed panache to Germany's starchy business culture. From Wordnik.com. [Herr Upwardly Mobile] Reference
Besides these changes the starchy matters put into the cloth in the sizing are dissolved away. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
Thank goodness Europeans finally listened to Antoine and other advocates of the starchy tuber. From Wordnik.com. [Groundwork: Spud time] Reference
Sweet and nutty when cooked, and not bad raw -- a little starchy but with a piquant aftertaste. From Wordnik.com. [Groundwork: Spud time] Reference
Avoid all starchy foods, as the organs of digestion are not sufficiently developed to receive them. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
In the process of washing, the starchy granules sink to the bottom, while the woody fibre floats off. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
But Bree's new contractor makes for an interesting palate cleanser after Orson's starchy traditionalism. From Wordnik.com. [Mega Buzz: Fringe's Body Double, NCIS: LA's Mystery and House's Budding Romance] Reference
starchy vegetables need only 1/2 tbsp. to one cup of liquid; non-starchy vegetables need 1 tbsp. to a cup. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management] Reference
The starchy matters, on the other hand, are completely changed, and devoted to purposes which will be immediately explained. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference
Yeast is a microscopic plant which grows in a moist, warm temperature and feeds on starchy materials such as are present in wheat. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
The winter wheats are, as a rule, more soft and starchy than the spring wheats, which are usually corneous or flinty to different degrees. From Wordnik.com. [Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value] Reference
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