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he genus Tricuspis, which often form dense, almost impassable growth, their leaves being stiff and sharp-pointed.

To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.

Anything short and stiff. [Obs.]

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.

grass (Bot.), a pestiferous grass (Hordeum murinum) related to barley. In California the stiffly awned spiklets work into the wool of sheep, and into the throat, flesh, and eyes of animals, sometimes even producing death. -- Squirrel hake (Zoöl.), a common American hake (Phycis tenuis); -- called also white hake. --…

Stiff; harsh. [Obs.] Ascham.

Stiff; precise; rigid. [R.] Killingbeck.

Stiffened with starch.

The quality or state of being starched; stiffness in manners; formality.

Of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness.

Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.

Stiff; rigid. Chaucer. Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark. Spenser. His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone. Spenser. Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies. Shak. The north is not so stark and cold. B. Jonson.

In a stark manner; stiffly; strongly. Its onward force too starky pent In figure, bone, and lineament. Emerson.

A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men. How the strait stays the slender waist constrain. Gay.

Strong; stiff; rigid. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.

Restricted; stiff; constrained. [R.] Fuller.

Set with stiff, slender bristles.

Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.

Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule. "Bow, stubborn knees." Shak. "Stubborn att…