Word Meanings - STIFFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat stiff.

Related words: (words related to STIFFISH)

• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• 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.
• SOMEWHAT
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
• 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
• STIFFTAIL
  The ruddy duck.
• 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.
• STIFF-NECKED
  Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people. Ex. xxxii. 9.
• STIFF-HEARTED
  Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious. Ezek. ii. 4.
• STIFFEN
  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.
• STIFF-TAILED
  Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid.
• STIFF-NECKEDNESS
  The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.
• STIFFLY
  In a stiff manner.
• STIFF-BACKED
  Obstinate. J. H. Newman.
• RESTIFF
  Restive.
• RESTIFFNESS
  Restiveness.
• MASTIFF
  A breed of large dogs noted for strength and courage. There are various strains, differing in form and color, and characteristic of different countries. Mastiff bat , any bat of the genus Molossus; so called because the face somewhat resembles