Definition of rigid

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Rigid (a.) Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence..

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Priapism :: Priapism (n.) More or less permanent erection and rigidity of the penis, with or without sexual desire..
Frigid :: Frigid (a.) Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.
Loose :: Loose (superl.) Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.
Cylindroid :: Cylindroid (n.) A certain surface of the third degree, described by a moving straight line; -- used to illustrate the motions of a rigid body and also the forces acting on the body..
Hard :: Hard (superl.) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
Wrench :: Wrench (v. t.) The system made up of a force and a couple of forces in a plane perpendicular to that force. Any number of forces acting at any points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a wrench.
Sermonize :: Sermonize (v. i.) To inculcate rigid rules.
Hirtellous :: Hirtellous (a.) Pubescent with minute and somewhat rigid hairs.
Precisian :: Precisian (n.) An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to the English Puritans.
Jeniquen :: "Jeniquen (n.) A Mexican name for the Sisal hemp (Agave rigida, var. Sisalana); also, its fiber..
Relax :: Relax (n.) To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews..
Ribband :: Ribband (n.) A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position, and give rigidity to the framework..
Set :: Set (v. i.) To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
Seta :: Seta (n.) Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss..
Iciness :: Iciness (n.) The state or quality of being icy or very cold; frigidity.
Disciplinarian :: Disciplinarian (n.) A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline.
Subjected :: Subject (v. t.) To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test..
Scleroderma :: Scleroderma (n.) A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin..
Rigorism :: Rigorism (n.) Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity.
Stith :: Stith (a.) Strong; stiff; rigid.
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