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Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style."A stiff annalistic method." Sir G. C. Lewis.

er with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil. And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint. Dryden. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. John ix. 6.

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

A narrow band or fillet; a part of a head-dress. Around the edge of this cap was a stiff bandeau of leather. Sir W. Scott.

A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up. The keeper entered leading his bandog, a large bloodhound, tied in a leam, or band, from which he takes his name. Sir W. Scott.

A blow as with a club; a heavy blow. Many a stiff thwack, many a bang. Hudibras.

Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. Gray.

ckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.

Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.

Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera. Beetle mite (Zoöl.), one of many species of mites, of the family Oribatidæ, parasitic on beetles. -- Black beetle, the common large black cockroach (Blatta orientalis…

A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass. His spear a bent, both stiff and strong. Drayton.

A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.

To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat. Mortimer.

One who bleats; a sheep. In cold, stiff soils the bleaters oft complain Of gouty ails. Dyer.

me purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff.

Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.

A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.

g suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room. Out bounced the mastiff. Swift. Bounced off his arm+chair. Thackeray.

A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts.

A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.