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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.
Stiffen
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.
Stiffen
Stiffen Stiff"en, v. i. To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective. Like bristles rose my stiffening hair. --Dryden. The tender soil then stiffening by degrees. --Dryden. Some souls we see, Grow hard and stiffen with adversity. --Dryden.

Meaning of Stiffened from wikipedia

- 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...
- give extremely high strength-to-weight ratios. Isogrid panels form self-stiffened structures where low weight, stiffness, strength and damage tolerance...
- and silk, starched, and stiffened with whalebone. A busk, typically made of wood, ivory, metal, or whalebone, was added to stiffen the front of the bodice...
- aggravates its inflammation, perpetuating the problem. Muscle can also be stiffened. Bursitis commonly affects superficial bursae. These include the subacromial...
- 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...
- Alice bands made of plastic and stiffened fabric...
- characterised by myotonia congenita, a hereditary condition that may cause it to stiffen or fall over when excited or startled.: 396  It may also be known as the...
- tradition, also by nuns, in the Byzantine Rite, composed of a kamilavka (stiffened round black headcovering) with an epanokamelavkion, a veil which completely...
- 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...
- Cigarette cards are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and advertise cigarette brands. Between 1875 and the...