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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.

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

Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair..

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

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

Stiff :: Stiff (superl.) Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.

Restiff :: Restiff (n.) A restive or stubborn horse.

Stiff-tailed :: Stifftail (n.) The ruddy duck.

Opisthotonos :: Opisthotonos (n.) A tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened.

Millinet :: Millinet (n.) A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.

Induration :: Induration (n.) Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling..

Tag :: Tag (n.) A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it..

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

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

Mastiffs :: Mastiffs (pl. ) of Mastif.

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..

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

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..

Rigidity :: Rigidity (n.) Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.

Starcraft :: Starchy (a.) Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.

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