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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..

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

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.

Stiffen :: Stiffen (v. t.) To make torpid; to benumb.

Tip :: Tip (n.) A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.

Pier :: Pier (n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.

Stay :: Stay (n.) A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men..

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

Stiffen :: Stiffen (v. t.) To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch..

Star-chamber :: Starch (v. t.) To stiffen with starch.

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

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

Stiffen :: Stiffen (v. t.) To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste..

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

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

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

Wigan :: Wigan (n.) A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women's dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England..

Hem :: Hem (n.) A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge..

Pandiculation :: Pandiculation (n.) A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy..

Buckram :: Buckram (n.) A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise..

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