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Barbet :: Barbet (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa..

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

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

Uneasy :: Uneasy (a.) Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not graceful; as, an uneasy deportment..

Tensive :: Tensive (a.) Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction..

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.

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

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

Gusset :: Gusset (n.) A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; esp., the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler..

Rigor :: Rigor (n.) Rigidity; stiffness.

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A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair..

Grogginess :: Grogginess (n.) Tenderness or stiffness in the foot of a horse, which causes him to move in a hobbling manner..

Jointless :: Jointless (a.) Without a joint; rigid; stiff.

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

Tough :: Tough (superl.) Stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow..

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..

Muley :: Muley (n.) A stiff, long saw, guided at the ends but not stretched in a gate..

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..

Ligature :: Ligature (n.) The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness; as, the ligature of a joint..

Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant..

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