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

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

Duff :: Duff (n.) A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff..

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

Hogframe :: Hogframe (n.) A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chiefly in American river and lake steamers. Called also hogging frame, and hogback..

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

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg..

Coriaceous :: Coriaceous (a.) Stiff, like leather or parchment..

Hirsute :: Hirsute (a.) Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs.

Flytrap :: Flytrap (n.) A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves..

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

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

Rigescent :: Rigescent (a.) Growing stiff or numb.

Bind :: Bind (v. i.) To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat..

Stiffening :: Stiffener (n.) One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat..

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

Stiff :: Stiff (superl.) Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff..

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..

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

Scotchman :: Scotchman (n.) A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear.

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