Stiff-necked

stif'-nekt, adj. (iit.)stijf in the neck; Stifle, v.t. to stop the breath of by foul air or other means to suffocate to extinguish to suppre the sound of to destroy. [Prob. from Stiff, and so ‘to make stiff but influenced by stive, M. E. form of E. St6W-] stigma, sttg'ina, «. a brand a mark of infamy {bot.\ the top of a pistil pi. Sttg'mae or Sttg'- mat a. [Lit. the mark of a pointed instrument, L.- -Gr.—root s tig, to be sharp (Sans. seen also in L. -stinguo, stigo and in E. 8tick, Sting Stigmata, stig'ma-ta, n the marks of the wounds on Christ's body, or marks resembling them, said to have been miraculously impre ed on the bodies of samts Stigmatic, stig-mat'ik, Stigmatical, stig-mat'ikal, adj mai ked or branded with a stigma giving infamy or repro ich.— adv. StigmatlCAliy.