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Stiff :: Stiff (superl.) Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints..

Pasteboard :: Pasteboard (n.) A stiff thick kind of paper board, formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or of paper macerated and pressed into molds, etc..

Bloodhound :: Bloodhound (n.) A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff..

Pandiculation :: Pandiculation (n.) A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy..

Starch :: Starch (n.) A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc..

Limmer :: Limmer (n.) A mongrel, as a cross between the mastiff and hound..

Buckram :: Buckram (a.) Stiff; precise.

Crinoline :: Crinoline (n.) A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair..

Budge :: Budge (a.) Austere or stiff, like scholastics..

Hispid :: Hispid (a.) Beset with stiff hairs or bristles.

Pricky :: Pricky (a.) Stiff and sharp; prickly.

Stiffly :: Stiffish (a.) Somewhat stiff.

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

Cledgy :: Cledgy (a.) Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil..

Stark :: Stark (n.) Stiff; rigid.

Mastiff :: Mastiff (n.) A breed of large dogs noted for strength and courage. There are various strains, differing in form and color, and characteristic of different countries..

Stiffen :: Stiffening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stiffe.

Tension :: Tension (a.) The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx..

Board :: Board (n.) Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards..

Inflexible :: Inflexible (a.) Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.

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