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Stickle
v. t. & i.
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A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.
Stickler
v. t.
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One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire.
Stickler
v. t.
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One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony.
Stick-seed
n.
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A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.
Sticktail
n.
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The ruddy duck.
Stick-tight
n.
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Beggar's ticks.
Sticky
superl.
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Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.
Stiff
superl.
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Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
Stiff
superl.
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Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
Stiff
superl.
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Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
Stiff
superl.
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Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
Stiff
superl.
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Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
Stiff
superl.
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Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
Stiff
superl.
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Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
Stiff-backed
a.
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Obstinate.
Stiffened
imp. & p. p.
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of Stiffen
Stiffening
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Stiffen
Stiffen
v. t.
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To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.
Stiffen
v. t.
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To make torpid; to benumb.
Stiffen
v. i.
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To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.
Stiffener
n.
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One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
Stiffening
n.
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Act or process of making stiff.
Stiffening
n.
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Something used to make anything stiff.
Stiff-hearted
a.
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Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious.
Stiffish
a.
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Somewhat stiff.
Stiffly
adv.
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In a stiff manner.
Stiff-necked
a.
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Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people.
Stiff-neckedness
n.
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The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.
Stiffness
n.
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The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.
Stifftail
n.
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The ruddy duck.