SPage 790
- English Word Stied Definition of Sty
- English Word Sties Definition of Sty
- English Word Stiff Definition Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
- English Word Stiff Definition Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
- English Word Stiff Definition Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
- English Word Stiff Definition Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
- English Word Stiff Definition Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
- English Word Stiff Definition Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.
- English Word Stiff Definition Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
- English Word Stiff Definition Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
- English Word Stiff-backed Definition Obstinate.
- English Word Stiff-hearted Definition Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious.
- English Word Stiff-necked Definition Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people.
- English Word Stiff-neckedness Definition The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.
- English Word Stiff-tailed Definition Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid.
- English Word Stiffen Definition To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.
- English Word Stiffen Definition To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.
- English Word Stiffen Definition To make torpid; to benumb.
- English Word Stiffen Definition To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.
- English Word Stiffened Definition of Stiffen