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: