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Tiffed :: Tiffed (imp. & p. p.) of Tif.

Clumsy :: Clumsy (superl.) Stiff or benumbed, as with cold..

Bar :: Bar (n.) To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up..

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..

Tentaculum :: Tentaculum (n.) One of the stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile hair..

Hispid :: Hispid (a.) Beset with stiff hairs or bristles.

Seta :: Seta (n.) Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss..

Nolle Prosequi :: Nolle prosequi () Will not prosecute; -- an entry on the record, denoting that a plaintiff discontinues his suit, or the attorney for the public a prosecution; either wholly, or as to some count, or as to some of several defendants..

Caitiff :: Caitiff (a.) Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable.

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

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..

Innuendo :: Innuendo (n.) An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief..

Stiff :: Stiff (superl.) Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.

Bent :: Bent (n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass..

Crisp :: Crisp (a.) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair..

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

Restiff :: Restiff (a.) Restive.

Starchwort :: Starchness (n.) Of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness.

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

Dwang :: Dwang (n.) A piece of wood set between two studs, posts, etc., to stiffen and support them..

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