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Cardboard :: Cardboard (n.) A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface..

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

Backsaw :: Backsaw (n.) A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.

Rib :: Rib (n.) A ridge, fin, or wing, as on a plate, cylinder, beam, etc., to strengthen or stiffen it..

Tensity :: Tensity (n.) The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness..

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

Stayed :: Stay (n.) Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them..

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

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

Costiveness :: Costiveness (n.) Inability to express one's self; stiffness.

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..

Truss :: Truss (n.) To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces..

Prudery :: Prudery (n.) The quality or state of being prudish; excessive or affected scrupulousness in speech or conduct; stiffness; coyness.

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A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair..

Web :: Web (n.) The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather..

Restiff :: Restiff (a.) Restive.

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

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

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

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..

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