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Stiff :: Stiff (superl.) Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze..

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..

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..

Harden :: Harden (v. t.) To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable..

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

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..

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

Inflexible :: Inflexible (a.) Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.

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..

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

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

Stifftail :: Stiffness (n.) The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character..

Rigor :: Rigor (n.) The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.

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

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

Stith :: Stith (a.) Strong; stiff; rigid.

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

Stiffening :: Stiffened (imp. & p. p.) of Stiffe.

Thomsen''s Disease :: Thomsen's disease () An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction..

Stylet :: Stylet (n.) A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging..

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