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Too rigid; too severe.

One of the Phalangoidea.

The caudal plate of trilobites, crustacean, and certain insects. See Illust. of Limulus and Trilobite.

One of a body of officers charged with the government of Spanish municipalities, corresponding to the English alderman.

Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton.

The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of from; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.

In a rigid manner; stiffly.

The quality or state of being rigid.

Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle.

Of or pertaining to the Solifugæ. -- n.

Same as Solifugæ.

Of or pertaining to a sphinx, or the family Sphingidæ.

Lemnian earth.

Spongiæ.

Somewhat rigid or stiff.

Of or pertaining to the genus Tingis.

Together. [Obs.] Chaucer.

bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid. Boyle.

The quality or state of being turgid.

Turgid. [Obs.] B. Jonson.