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Dressing :: Dressing (n.) Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics..

Anchylose :: Anchylose (v. t. & i.) To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one.

Strigous :: Strigose (a.) Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf..

Stock :: Stock (n.) A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock..

Pise :: Pise (n.) A species of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in between molds which are carried up as the wall rises; -- called also pise work.

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

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..

Tip :: Tip (n.) A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.

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

Stiff-hearted :: Stiffening (n.) Something used to make anything stiff.

Stiffness :: Stiff-neckedness (n.) The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.

Restiffness :: Restiffness (n.) Restiveness.

Starchwort :: Starchness (n.) Of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness.

Stiff :: Stiff (superl.) Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style..

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

Scratchbrush :: Scratchbrush (n.) A stiff wire brush for cleaning iron castings and other metal.

Clumsy :: Clumsy (superl.) Stiff or benumbed, as with cold..

Stiffened :: Stiff-backed (a.) Obstinate.

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

Necked :: Necked (a.) Having (such) a neck; -- chiefly used in composition; as, stiff-necked..

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