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Word Meanings - STIFFEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. tiono make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch. Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. Shak. 2. To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste. 3. To make torpid; to benumb.

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  • THICKENING
    Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
  • BLOODSUCKER
    Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
  • BLOODSHEDDER
    One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
  • THICK WIND
    A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
  • STIFFENER
    One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
  • BLOODULF
    The European bullfinch.
  • BLOODROOT
    A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
  • STARCHER
    One who starches.
  • THICK-SKINNED
    Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
  • BENUMBED
    Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. -- Be*numbed"ness, n.
  • THICKNESS
    The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
  • 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.
  • THICK-WINDED
    Affected with thick wind.
  • THICKBILL
    The bullfinch.
  • BLOODY-MINDED
    Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
  • CLOTHESLINE
    A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
  • BLOODSHEDDING
    Bloodshed. Shak.
  • PASTEURIZER
    One that Pasteurizes, specif. an apparatus for heating and agitating, fluid.
  • BLOODINESS
    1. The state of being bloody. 2. Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.
  • 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
  • 'SBLOOD
    An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
  • SAILCLOTH
    Duck or canvas used in making sails.
  • BEDCLOTHES
    Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
  • HEARSECLOTH
    A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
  • BREECHCLOTH
    A cloth worn around the breech.
  • NECKCLOTH
    A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
  • BROADCLOTH
    A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
  • RESTIFF
    Restive.
  • UNCLOTHED
    Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:

 

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