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Rigid :: Rigid (a.) Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence..

Severe :: Severe (superl.) Rigidly methodical, or adherent to rule or principle; exactly conformed to a standard; not allowing or employing unneccessary ornament, amplification, etc.; strict; -- said of style, argument, etc..

Sermonize :: Sermonize (v. i.) To inculcate rigid rules.

Unrelenting :: Unrelenting (a.) Not relenting; unyielding; rigid; hard; stern; cruel.

Trunkfish :: Trunkfish (n.) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish..

Tense :: Tense (a.) Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber..

Frigidly :: Frigidly (adv.) In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.

Martinet :: Martinet (n.) In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods..

Spine :: Spine (n.) One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.

Attemper :: Attemper (v. t.) To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice with clemency..

Spinetail :: Spinetail (n.) Any one or several species of swifts of the genus Acanthylis, or Chaetura, and allied genera, in which the shafts of the tail feathers terminate in rigid spines..

Strene :: Strelitzia (n.) A genus of plants related to the banana, found at the Cape of Good Hope. They have rigid glaucous distichous leaves, and peculiar richly colored flowers..

Inflexible :: Inflexible (a.) Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.

Jointless :: Jointless (a.) Without a joint; rigid; stiff.

Subriguous :: Subrigid (a.) Somewhat rigid or stiff.

Wryneck :: Wryneck (n.) A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.

Set :: Set (v. i.) To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.

Rigidly :: Rigidly (v.) In a rigid manner; stiffly.

Rigidity :: Rigidity (n.) Severity; rigor.

Ascetic :: Ascetic (a.) Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.

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