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Benty :: Benty (a.) A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields..

Tormentor :: Tormentor (n.) An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels..

Cardboard :: Cardboard (n.) A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface..

Limp :: Limp (a.) Lacking stiffness; flimsy; as, a limp cravat..

Crinoline :: Crinoline (n.) A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair..

Stiff-tailed :: Stifftail (n.) The ruddy duck.

Backsaw :: Backsaw (n.) A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.

Teasel :: Teasel (n.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth..

Ligature :: Ligature (n.) The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness; as, the ligature of a joint..

Rigor :: Rigor (n.) Rigidity; stiffness.

Stiffish :: Stiff-hearted (a.) Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious.

Choker :: Choker (n.) A stiff wide cravat; a stock.

Spur :: Spur (n.) Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg..

Clumsy :: Clumsy (superl.) Stiff or benumbed, as with cold..

Barbellate :: Barbellate (a.) Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point..

Rigid :: Rigid (a.) Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.

Sago :: Sago (n.) A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies, much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick; also, as starch, for stiffening textile fabrics. It is prepared from the stems of several East Indian and Malayan palm trees, but chiefly from the Metroxylon Sagu; also from several cycadaceous plants (Cycas revoluta, Zamia integrifolia, etc.)..

Restiff :: Restiff (a.) Restive.

Starched :: Starch (n.) Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality..

Set :: Set (v. t.) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese..

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