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In a stiff manner.

To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.

In a rigid manner; stiffly.

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. --…

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