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Definition of STIFFENED

Stiffened
Stiffen Stiff"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stiffened; p. pr. & vb. n. Stiffening.] [See Stiff.] 1. To 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.

Meaning of STIFFENED from wikipedia

- stapedius and tensor tympani muscles of the ossicles contract. The stapedius stiffens the ossicular chain by pulling the stapes (stirrup) of the middle ear away...
- tradition, also by nuns, in the Byzantine Rite, composed of a kamilavka (stiffened round black headcovering) with an epanokamelavkion, a veil which completely...
- Cigarette cards are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and advertise cigarette brands. Between 1875 and the...
- Alice bands made of plastic and stiffened fabric...
- weapon is named after it. The name comes from the Latin torpere, 'to be stiffened or paralyzed', from the effect on someone who touches the fish. Electric...
- Alexander the Great in battle. Pteruges of leather or stiffened linen are depicted at the shoulders and hips, emerging from beneath his cuir****. Detail...
- this polymer that is used to stiffen clothing. Starch was widely used in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries to stiffen the wide collars and ruffs of...
- development of the inflatable boat with a rubberized fabric bottom that is stiffened with flat boards within the collar to form the deck or floor of the boat...
- A support****e or underpropper is a stiffened support for a ruff or collar. Essential items of courtly fashion in the late 16th and early 17th centuries...
- froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his ch****, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly...