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Millinet :: Millinet (n.) A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.

Stiff :: Stiff (superl.) Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints..

Duff :: Duff (n.) A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff..

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

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

Tensive :: Tensive (a.) Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction..

Mastiffs :: Mastiffs (pl. ) of Mastif.

M/tin :: M/tin (n.) A French mastiff.

Wigan :: Wigan (n.) A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women's dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England..

Check :: Check (v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended..

Tile :: Tile (n.) A stiff hat.

Stiffening :: Stiffening (n.) Act or process of making stiff.

Nash :: Nash (a.) Firm; stiff; hard; also, chilly..

Crisp :: Crisp (a.) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair..

Cosmoline :: Cosmoline (n.) A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly..

Stayed :: Stay (n.) Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them..

Clumsy :: Clumsy (superl.) Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse..

Rib :: Rib (n.) A ridge, fin, or wing, as on a plate, cylinder, beam, etc., to strengthen or stiffen it..

Necked :: Necked (a.) Having (such) a neck; -- chiefly used in composition; as, stiff-necked..

Pluteus :: Pluteus (n.) The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods..

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