starch wort

[Eng. starch, s., and wort. ] Bot.: Arum maculatum. Named because its tubers yielded the finest starch for the ruff's worn in the reign of Elizabeth. [ARUM.] *starch-ỹ, a . [Eng. starch , a.; -y.] 1. Consisting of starch, resembling starch. 2. Stiff, precise, formal in manner, prim. "Nothing like their starchy doctors for vanity." George Eliot : Middle march , ch. xxii. *star-craft, s. [Eng.star, s., and craft .] Astrol ogy. "Under the selfsame aspect of the stars (O falsehood of all star craft !) we were born." Tennyson: The Lover's Tale, i. stäre (1), s . [A. S. stær, stæru , stearu ; cogn. with Icel.starr i , star i ; Dan. stær ; Sw.stare; Ger.staar ; Lat.sturnus.] [STARLING.] A starling. "A popinjay, a pye, or a stare."-Elyot: Govern our, bk. i., ch. xiii. stäre (2), s. [STARE, v.] The act of one who stares; a fixed look with eyes wide open. "With a dull and stupid stare." Church ill: The Ghost, iv. stäre (3), *starr, s. [Ger. starr =rigid.] Bot .: Various coarse seaside gra es and sedges; spec., Psamma arenaria, Carex arenaria , and C. vulgar is . stäre, *star-yn, v . i . & t . [A. S.starian =to stare; cogn. with Icel. star a, stir a ; Sw. stirra ; Dan. stirre ; Ger. stieren .] A. Intransitive : IMG:content-0202.png:[blocks in formation] "I as starer, and she as staree." - Mi Edge worth: Be linda, ch. iii. stär-er, s. [English stare, v.; -er.] One who stares. "A starer is not usually a person to be convinced by the reason of the thing."- Steele : Spectator , No. 20. *starfe, pret . of v . [STARVE.] *star-fül, *star-full, a .[English star ; -ful (l).] Starry. ( Sylvester : Vocation , 889.)