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Aghast, astonish’d, and struck dumb with fear, 
I stood; like bristles rose my stiff'ning hair. Dryden. 
To grow hard; to be hardened. 
The tender soil, then stiffening by degrees, 
Shut from the bounded earth the bounding seas. Dryden. 
To grow less susceptive of impression; to grow obstinate. 
Some souls, we see. 
Grow hard and stiffen with adversity. Dryden. 
STIFFHE'ARTED, adj. Obstinate; stubborn; contu¬ 
macious.—They are impudent children and stiff hearted. 
Ezek. 
STIFFKEY, a parish in Norfolk, situated upon the coast; 
3 miles-east of Wells. 
STI'FFLY, adv. Rigidly; inflexibly; stubbornly.— 
In matters divine, it is still maintained stiffly, that they have 
stiffnecked force. Hooker. —Strongly. 
Hold, hold, my heart; 
And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, 
But bear me stiffly up. Shakspeare. 
STI'FFNECKED, adj. Stubborn; obstinate; contuma¬ 
cious. 
This stiff neck'd pride, nor art nor force can bend. 
Nor high-flown hopes to reason’s lure descend. Denham. 
STI'FFNESS, s. [jeipnej-j-e. Sax.] Rigidity; inflexi¬ 
bility; hardness; inaptitude to bend.—The willow bows 
and recovers, the oak is stubborn and inflexible; and the 
punishment of that stiffness is one branch of the allegory. 
L'Estrange. —Inaptitude to motion; torpidness. 
The pillows of this frame grow weak, 
My sinews slacken, and an icy stiffness 
Benumbs my blood. Denham. 
Tension; not laxity. 
To try new shrouds, one mounts into the wind. 
And one below, their ease or stiffness notes. Dryden. 
Obstinacy; stubbornness; contumaciousness.—Firmness 
or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but 
submission to prejudice. Locke. —Unpleasing formality ; 
constraint.—All this religion sat easily upon him, without 
any of that stiffness and constraint, any of those forbidding 
appearances which disparage the actions of the sincerely 
pious. Atterlmry. —Rigorousness; harshness. 
There fill yourself with those most joyous sights; 
But speak no word to her of these sad plights, 
Which her too constant stiffness doth constrain. Spenser. 
Manner of writing, not easy but harsh and constrained.— 
Rules and critical observations improve a good genius, 
where nature leadeth the way, provided he is not too scru¬ 
pulous; for that will introduce a stiffness and affectation, 
which are utterly abhorrent from all good writing. Felton. 
STIFFORD, a parish in Essex; I 3 miles north-north-west 
of Gray’s Thurrock. 
To STI'FLE, v. a. [estoufer , Fr.] To oppress or kill 
by closeness of air; to suffocate. 
Where have you been broiling ? 
Among the crowd i’ the abbey, where a finger 
Cou’d not be wedg’d in more ; I am stijlcd 
With the mere rankness of their joy. Shakspeare. 
That part of the air that we draw out, left the more room 
for the stiffing steams of the coals to be received into it. 
Boyle.—Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies. Dryden. 
—To keep in; to hinder from emission.—Whilst bodies 
become coloured by reflecting or transmitting this or that 
sort of rays more copiously than the rest, they stop and stifle 
in themselves the rays which they do not reflect or transmit. 
Newton. —To extinguish by hindering communication ; to 
extinguish by artful or gentle means.—Every reasonable 
tnan will pay a tax with cheerfulness for stifling a civil war 
iff its birth, Addison. —To suppress; to conceal. 
If’t prove thy fortune, Polydore, to conquer, 
Trust me, and let me know thy love’s success, 
That I may ever after stifle mine. Otway* 
To suppress artfully or fraudulently.—These conclusions 
have been acknowledged by the disputers themselves, till 
with labour andstudy they had stifled their first convictions. 
Rogers. 
STI'FLE, s. The first joint above a horse’s thigh next 
the buttock. Mason. 
STI'FLEMENT, s. Something that might be suppressed 
or concealed. 
Uttering nought else but idle stflements, 
Tunes without sense, words inarticulate. Brewer. 
To STIGH. See To Sty. 
STIGLIANO, a smalltown in the kingdom of Naples, 
in the province of Basilicata, with 3500 inhabitants; 16 miles 
south of Tricarico. 
STI'GMA, s. [stigma, Lat.] A brand; a mark with a 
hot iron.—A mark of infamy.—'Happy is it for him,-that 
the blackest stigm a, that can be fastened upon him, is that 
his robes were whiter than his brethren’s. Bp. Hall. 
STIGMA, a minute red speck in the skin, without any 
elevation of the cuticle, of the same nature as petechia: flxom 
which they differ only in magnitude. 
STIGMA, in Botany and Vegetable Philosophy, an essen¬ 
tial part of the Pistillum. See Botany. 
STIGMA'TIC, or Stigi^a'tical, adj. Branded or marked 
with some token of infamy, or deformity. 
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, 
Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind, 
Stigmatical in making, worse in mind. Shakspeare . 
STI'GMATIC, s. A notorious lewd fellow, who hath 
been burnt with a hot iron; or beareth other marks about 
him, as a token of his punishment. Bullokar. —One 011 
whom nature has set a mark of deformity. Steevens .— 
Foul stigmatic, that’s more than thou canst tell. Shak¬ 
speare. 
Thou art neither like thy sire nor dam; 
But like a foul misshapen stigmatic. 
Mark’d by the destinies to be avoided. Shakspeare. 
STIGMA'TICALLY, adv. With a mark of infamy or 
deformity. 
If you spy any man that hath a look, 
Stigmatical/y drawn, like to a fury. Wonder of a Kingdom, 
To STI'GMATIZE, v. a. [stigmatiser, Fr.] To mark 
with a brand; to disgrace with a note of reproach.—They 
had more need have their cheeks stigmatised with a hot 
iron, some of our Jezebels, instead of painting! Burton. 
STILAGO, in Botany, a genus of the class gynandria, order 
triandria.—Generic Character. Calyx: perianth one-leafed, 
hemispherical, almost entire, three-lobed. Corolla none. 
Stamina: filaments thrde, placed on the germ, spreading, 
longer than the calyx. Pistil: germ superior, roundish-. 
Style cylindrical, permanent, shorter than the stamens. Stig¬ 
ma warfed. Pericarp : drupe globular. Seed: nut globu¬ 
lar. Male and female on separate trees.— Essential Charac - 
ter. Calyx one-leafed, pitcher-shaped. Corolla none. 
Female—Stigmas sessile. Drupe with a two-celied nut. 
1. Stilago Bunius.—This is a tree, with the leaves alter¬ 
nate, petioled, simple, ovate-oblong, quite entire, smooth. 
Spikes alternate,naked, very long. Flowers small, scattered, 
sessile.—Native of the East Indies. 
2. Stilago diandra.—Leaves alternate, on short petioles, 
nearly bifariousor two-faced, oval, entire, smooth, from two 
to four inches long, and from one to two broad. Stipules 
lanceolate. Spikes filiform, terminating, many-flowered. 
Bractes minute, one-flowered. Flowers very small, approxi¬ 
mated.—In the male tree; perianth inferior, cup-form, ob¬ 
tusely four-toothed. Corolla none. Filaments two, four 
times longer than the calyx. Anthers thin, singly oval.-— 
In the female; calyx inferior, closely embracing three- 
fourths of the germ, four or five-toothed. Corolla none. 
Nectary*. 
