stiffening order (stifningor der)

A custom-house warrant by which ballast or heavy goods may be taken on board before the whole inward cargo is discharged, to prevent the ve el from getting too light. Imp. Dict. stiff-hearted (stif'här'ted), a. Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious. They are impudent children and stiff hearted . Ezek. ii. 4. stifflel (stif'l), n. A dialectal form of stightle , stickle3. IMG:content-2126.png:[blocks in formation] The king intend eth, in eschewing all inconvenients, to be as big as they both, and to be a styffeler atween them. Paston Letters, III. 98, quoted in J. Gairdner's Richard (III. i. The drift was, as I judged, for Dethick to continue such hook or stifters in the College of his pupils, to win him in time by Abp. Parker, p. 252. ( Davies.) 2. A busybody. Hall i well (spelled stifler). [Prov. Eng.] stiffly (stif'li), adv. [ And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up. Shak . , Hamlet, i. 5. 95. Pistorius and others stiffly maintain the use of charms, words, characters, . Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 271. stiff-neck (stif'nek), n . Cervical myalgia; sometimes, true torticollis. stiff-necked (stif'nekt or -nek"ed), a. Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious: as, a stiff - necked people. stiff-necked ne (stif'nekt-nes or -nek"ed-nes), n. The property or character of being stiff necked; stubbornne .