Vocabulary : Stick-seed to Stiffen

Stick-seed : A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.
Sticktail : The ruddy duck.
Stick-tight : Beggar's ticks.
Sticky : Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.
Stiddy : An anvil; also, a smith shop. See Stithy.

Stied : of Sty
Sties : of Sty
Stiff : Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints. ;; Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff. ;; Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze. ;; Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary. ;; Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style. ;; Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear. ;; Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. ;; Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
Stiff-backed : Obstinate.
Stiffen : To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch. ;; To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste. ;; To make torpid; to benumb. ;; To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.

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