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Bodice :: Bodice (n.) A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays..

Rigid :: Rigid (a.) Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.

Cosmoline :: Cosmoline (n.) A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly..

Stifftail :: Stiffness (n.) The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character..

Benty :: Benty (a.) A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields..

Flaccid :: Flaccid (a.) Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh..

Inflexibility :: Inflexibility (n.) The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy..

Costiveness :: Costiveness (n.) Inability to express one's self; stiffness.

Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Restricted; stiff; constrained.

Bent :: Bent (n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass..

Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine..

Hem :: Hem (n.) A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge..

Crisp :: Crisp (a.) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair..

Tentiginous :: Tentiginous (a.) Stiff; stretched; strained.

Stylet :: Stylet (n.) A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging..

Tile :: Tile (n.) A stiff hat.

Flytrap :: Flytrap (n.) A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves..

Starch :: Starch (a.) Stiff; precise; rigid.

Rigor :: Rigor (n.) Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.

Gum :: Gum (v. t.) To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance.

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