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Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor. "Sipping his tiff of brandy punch." Sir W. Scott.

es of gause, or very silk. The smoke of sulphur . . . is commonly used by women to whiten tiffanies. Sir T. Browne.

A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense.

Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.

Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable. Arnold had sped his caitiff flight. W. Irving.

rious strains, differing in form and color, and characteristic of different countries. Mastiff bat (Zoöl.) , any bat of the genus Molossus; so called because the face somewhat resembles that of a mastiff.

One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant.

A high priest. Especially:

Restive. [Obs.]

Restiveness. [Obs.]

Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints. [They] rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aërial sky. Milton.

Obstinate. J. H. Newman.

Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious. Ezek. ii. 4.

Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people. Ex. xxxii. 9.

The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.

Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid.

tiono make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch. Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. Shak.

One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.

Act or process of making stiff.

Somewhat stiff.