Stammering 2673 Cure for 2672 Stamp duties 2742 Starch, to make 2391-2 Starching 2390 Stew soup 185-7 Stilton cheese 1639 Stock, browning for 108 Stock, cow-heel 1412 Economical 106 For gravies,

Usually, if all the washing is done at home, the mistress hires some one to assist at the wash-tub, and sees to little matters herself, in the way of dusting, clearing away breakfast things, folding, starching, and ironing the fine things.

Thursday and Friday, in a laundry in full employ, are usually devoted to mangling, starching, and ironing. 2388.

Starching is a process by which stiffness is communicated to certain parts of linen, as the collar and front of shirts, by dipping them in a paste made of starch boiled in water, mixed with a little gum Arabic, where extra stiffness is required.

I don't believe I talked just so; but the fact is, in reporting one's conversation, one cannot help Blair-ing it up more or less, ironing out crumpled paragraphs, starching limp ones, and crimping and plaiting a little sometimes; it is as natural as prinking at the looking-glass.]

Once, when she related her adventure with the pigeon-pie, grandma Read, who was clear-starching her caps, let the starch boil over on the stove; and at another time Mrs. Parlin was so much absorbed in a description of Phebe, that she almost spiced a custard with cayenne pepper.

It is of mangling and clear-starching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes.

Rub a few bits of starch in a little cold water.

Therefore, starch is converted into a reducing sugar by the saliva.

It is found that the liver of an animal well and regularly fed, when examined soon after death, contains a quantity of a carbohydrate substance not unlike starch.

Again, this most important digestive fluid produces on starch an action similar to that of saliva, but much more powerful.

Within a few minutes some of the starch is converted through intermediary stages into maltose.

Test a portion of C (Experiment 57) with solution of iodine; no blue color is obtained, as all the starch has disappeared, having been converted into a reducing sugar, or maltose.

Such are starch, gum, cellulose, and so forth, which are almost identical in their ultimate composition, and admit of ready conversion into sugar by a simple process of vital chemistry.

It is a little singular that the active principles of coffee and tea are probably identical,no more so, however, than the marvellous similarity of starch, gum, and sugar, or other chemical wonders.

The insides of the boxes are lined with press cloths, and when filled these cloths are carefully folded over the mall, which is now of the consistence of starch; and a heavy beam, worked on two upright three-inch screws, is let down on the lid of the press.

"I don't mean that he boltedhe'd got enough starch left in him not to do thatbut

Washing, starching, ironing, darning, patching, and an immense deal of talk and consultation, occupied that and a good deal of the following day, the rest of which was given up to the repairing of an immense pair of green baize shoes, without which Aunt Patsy could not be persuaded to go into the outer air.

About the second of those weeks, Content Scranton came to "do over" Mrs. Parker's summer-gowns, and put her caps together after their semi-annual starching.

I washed that next morning, Monday, but all the time I was rubbing and starching and hanging out, my mind was with Jennie Brice.

There came a few busy days of stitching and starching, and crimping and packing, and then, in the last of June, they would be off.

She could do anything with those deft fingers of hers: her butter was proverbial, her bread excellent, she could trim a hat and hem a duster with equal speed and nicety, and as for clear-starching and getting up fine things, she was the wonder of the rustic matrons for ten miles round.

Yes, Prince, the sister of the Prussian Crown Prince is permitted to remain in that room for an hour or two if she will, to look on at the washing, the starching, the ironing, the sorting-out of body and house linen PRINCE.

Reach Reeling Retting Roller-feed Rolls Root-comber opener Round-thread finish Rove Roving frame Roxburgh, Dr. Sack-cutting frame, semi-mechanical Sack making printing machine Sand bags Seed per acre, amount of sowing of Sewing machines Shell-feed Short-tell Snipping machine Softening machines Spinning Spool or roll winding Spools (see Rolls) Standard bale Starching (see Dressing) Steeping (see Retting)

If she can hammer out a text of Scripture, and write her name in characters as big and gawky as herself, 'tis as far as her education has carried her, save in pickling, preserving, stitchery, and clear starching, the only arts not sinful in her eyes.