Stiff

1. superl. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
2. superl. Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
3. superl. Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
4. superl. Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
5. superl. Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
6. superl. Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
7. superl. Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.
8. superl. Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; — opposed to crank.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.