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Backsaw :: Backsaw (n.) A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.

Starchedness :: Starched (a.) Stiff; precise; formal.

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

Sago :: Sago (n.) A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies, much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick; also, as starch, for stiffening textile fabrics. It is prepared from the stems of several East Indian and Malayan palm trees, but chiefly from the Metroxylon Sagu; also from several cycadaceous plants (Cycas revoluta, Zamia integrifolia, etc.)..

Starched :: Starch (n.) Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality..

Setaceous :: Setaceous (a.) Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail..

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..

Immobilize :: Immobilize (v. t.) To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages..

Buckram :: Buckram (v. t.) To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.

Wooden :: Wooden (a.) Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.

Trussing :: Trussing (n.) The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, or the like, by putting in struts, ties, etc., till it has something of the character of a truss..

Bandog :: Bandog (n.) A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up..

Gale :: Gale (n.) A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.

Beard :: Beard (n.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain..

Whalebone :: Whalebone (n.) A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen..

Subriguous :: Subrigid (a.) Somewhat rigid or stiff.

Stiffener :: Stiffen (v. i.) To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective..

Stiffen :: Stiffen (v. t.) To make torpid; to benumb.

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

Set :: Set (v. t.) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese..

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