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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Starkness :: Starkly (adv.) In a stark manner; stiffly; strongly.
Stiffening :: Stiffener (n.) One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat..
Recompensation :: Recompensation (n.) Used to denote a case where a set-off pleaded by the defendant is met by a set-off pleaded by the plaintiff.
Recover :: Recover (v. i.) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit..
Stiff-neckedness :: Stiff-necked (a.) Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people..
Stiffen :: Stiffen (v. t.) To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste..
Formal :: Formal (a.) Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation..
Surrebuter :: Surrebut (v. i.) To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter..
Bent :: Bent (n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass..
Caitiff :: Caitiff (n.) A captive; a prisoner.
Piculet :: Piculet (n.) Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers..
Piccadilly :: Piccadilly (n.) A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century..
Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant..
Pasteboard :: Pasteboard (n.) A stiff thick kind of paper board, formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or of paper macerated and pressed into molds, etc..
Replevy :: Replevy (v. t.) To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied..
Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine..
Tiffany :: Tiffany (n.) A species of gause, or very silk..
Plea :: Plea (n.) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why
Replication :: Replication (n.) The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of fact, to the defendant's plea..
Pier :: Pier (n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.
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