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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…

Stiff; stout; strong; as, a sturdy oak. Milton. He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty. Sir H. Wotton.

A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging.

Somewhat rigid or stiff.

An order of Infusoria having the body armed with somewhat stiff, tubular processes which they use as suckers in obtaining their food. They are usually stalked.

To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up. Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. Shak. Trumpets summon him to war. Dryden.

till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will. Locke. They should supple our stiff willfulness. Barrow.