Word Meanings - STARCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Stiff; precise; rigid. Killingbeck.

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• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• RIGID
  1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton. 2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
• RIGIDLY
  In a rigid manner; stiffly.
• STIFFENING
  1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
• STIFF
  Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. Totten. 8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be
• STIFFTAIL
  The ruddy duck.
• STIFFISH
  Somewhat stiff.
• STIFFNESS
  The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. South.
• RIGIDITY
  1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of from; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness. 2. Stiffness
• RIGIDULOUS
  Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle.
• STIFF-NECKED
  Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people. Ex. xxxii. 9.
• STIFF-HEARTED
  Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious. Ezek. ii. 4.
• RIGIDNESS
  The quality or state of being rigid.
• STIFFEN
  Etym: 1. tiono make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch. Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. Shak. 2. To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste. 3. To make torpid; to benumb.
• PRECISE
  praecidere to cut off in front, to cut off; prae before + caedere to 1. Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality. The law in this point is
• STIFF-TAILED
  Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid.
• STIFF-NECKEDNESS
  The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.
• STIFFLY
  In a stiff manner.
• STIFF-BACKED
  Obstinate. J. H. Newman.
• RESTIFF
  Restive.
• RESTIFFNESS
  Restiveness.
• INFRIGIDATE
  To chill; to make cold; to cool. Boyle.
• FRIGIDARIUM
  The cooling room of the Roman thermæ, furnished with a cold bath.
• SUBRIGID
  Somewhat rigid or stiff.
• MASTIFF
  A breed of large dogs noted for strength and courage. There are various strains, differing in form and color, and characteristic of different countries. Mastiff bat , any bat of the genus Molossus; so called because the face somewhat resembles
• FRIGIDITY
  1. The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth. Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air. Sir T. Browne. 2. Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness
• FRIGIDNESS
  The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.