Word Meanings - STIFF-NECKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people. Ex. xxxii. 9.
Related words: (words related to STIFF-NECKED)
- NECKING
See NECKMOLD - STIFFENER
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat. - PEOPLE
1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx. - NECKCLOTH
A piece of any fabric worn around the neck. - STIFFENING
1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship. - NECKMOLD; NECKMOULD
A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital. Weale. - STIFF
Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. Totten. 8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be - NECKERCHIEF
A kerchief for the neck; -- called also neck handkerchief. - NECKED
Cracked; -- said of a treenail. (more info) 1. Having a neck; -- chiefly used in composition; as, stiff- necked. - STIFFTAIL
The ruddy duck. - OBSTINATE
a thing with firmness, to persist in; ob + a word from the 1. Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness. - STIFFISH
Somewhat stiff. - STIFFNESS
The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. South. - NECKAR NUT
See NUT - NECKPLATE
See 2 - PEOPLED
Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray. - STIFF-NECKED
Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people. Ex. xxxii. 9. - CONTUMACIOUS
Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court. Blackstone. Syn. -- Stubborn; obstinate; obdurate; disobedient; perverse; unyielding; headstrong. -- Con`tu*ma"cious*ly, adv. -- Con`tu*ma"cious*ness, n. (more info) 1. Exhibiting - PEOPLE'S PARTY
A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc. - SANDNECKER
A European flounder ; -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker. - CROOKNECK
Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The - RESTIFF
Restive. - KNECK
The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out. - RESTIFFNESS
Restiveness. - TRADESPEOPLE
People engaged in trade; shopkeepers. - VOLCANIC NECK
A column of igneous rock formed by congelation of lava in the conduit of a volcano and later exposed by the removal of surrounding rocks. - IMPEOPLE
To people; to give a population to. Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont. - DISPEOPLE
To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton.