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- 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
- English Word Stiffener Definition One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
- English Word Stiffening Definition of Stiffen
- English Word Stiffening Definition Act or process of making stiff.
- English Word Stiffening Definition Something used to make anything stiff.
- English Word Stiffish Definition Somewhat stiff.
- English Word Stiffly Definition In a stiff manner.
- English Word Stiffness Definition The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.
- English Word Stifftail Definition The ruddy duck.
- English Word Stifle Definition The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse.
- English Word Stifle Definition To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust.