Stiffly: alternatives and connections

To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one.

Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular…

Stiffness or fixation of a joint; formation of a stiff joint.

Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point.

A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunche…

Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.

Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded u…

A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.

A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.

To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.

Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.

A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.

Stiff; precise.

Austere or stiff, like scholastics.

A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.

A stiff wide cravat; a stock.

Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil.

Stiff or benumbed, as with cold.