Word Meanings - STIFFNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.

• Betso
  A small brass Venetian coin.
• Belonging
  of Belong
• Bedding
  of Bed
• Pasteurization
  A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140¡ F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments.
• Benignly
  In a benign manner.
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• BENEDICTBENEDICK
  A married man, or a man newly married.
• Besaile
  Alt. of Besayle
• Behavior
  Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.
• Bearberry
  A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.
• Betwixt
  In the space which separates; between.
• Beltin
  See Beltane.
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Stateprison
  See under State, n.
• Benumbed
  of Benumb
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• BERMUDAGRASS
  A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.
• Beseech
  To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Beleft
  of Beleave

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