Definition of tiff

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

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Stiff-neckedness :: Stiff-necked (a.) Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people..
Stiffen :: Stiffen (v. t.) To make torpid; to benumb.
Pontifician :: Pontifician (a.) Of or pertaining to the pontiff or pope.
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..
Complainant :: Complainant (n.) The party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law..
Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered..
Restiff :: Restiff (n.) A restive or stubborn horse.
Gale :: Gale (n.) A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.
Limmer :: Limmer (n.) A mongrel, as a cross between the mastiff and hound..
Dwang :: Dwang (n.) A piece of wood set between two studs, posts, etc., to stiffen and support them..
Uneasy :: Uneasy (a.) Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not graceful; as, an uneasy deportment..
Tiffany :: Tiffany (n.) A species of gause, or very silk..
Summons :: Summons (v.) A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like..
Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair..
Stiffened :: Stiff-backed (a.) Obstinate.
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..
Elegit :: Elegit (n.) A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired..
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..
Color :: Color (n.) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court..
Stiff-necked :: Stiffly (adv.) In a stiff manner.
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