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

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

Crinoline :: Crinoline (n.) A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt..

Caitiff :: Caitiff (n.) A mean, despicable person; one whose character meanness and wickedness meet..

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

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

Libel :: Libel (n.) A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his cause of action, and of the relief he seeks..

Subpoenaed :: Subpoena (n.) A writ commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty; the process by which a defendant in equity is commanded to appear and answer the plaintiff's bill..

Check :: Check (v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended..

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

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

Surrein :: Surrebuter (n.) The reply of a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.

Tiff :: Tiff (n.) A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift.

Starkness :: Starkly (adv.) In a stark manner; stiffly; strongly.

Buckram :: Buckram (v. t.) To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.

Starch :: Starch (n.) A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc..

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

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

Cream :: Cream (v. i.) To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle..

Stiff-necked :: Stiffly (adv.) In a stiff manner.

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