Reverse Dictionary: STIFF

ADJECTIVES
1412 UNBUXOM unready to bend, stiff → obs.
1440 RIGENT stiff, rigid → obs.
1477 ROID stiff → obs.
1746 AFRORE frozen, stiff with frost → Eng. dial.
1779 — POKERISH inclined to be stiff and unyielding in manner
1788 HASK rough to the touch; stiff, unyielding; brittle and difficult to work → Sc. & Eng. dial.
..19C CHURLY hard, dry, stiff → Eng. dial.
..19C DEATH-STARK as stiff as death → Eng. dial.  
..19C RAXY stiff → Sc.
1808 HABBIE → HABBY stiff in motion → Sc.
1818 UNBOWSOME unbending, unyielding, stiff, rigid → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1825 CRAMPLE-HAMMED stiffened in the lower joints → Eng. dial.
1825 SCRAM benumbed; withered; stiff, cramped → Eng. dial.
1843 STICKY of a person: wanting in animation or grace; stiff, wooden → colloq. obs.
1848 RIGESCENT  tending to be or becoming rigid or stiff
1851 CRISP stiff, firm, as opposed to limp
1886 — RAMRODDY stiff, unbending
1898 ALL IN A PIECE stiff with cold or rheumatism → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ALL OF A PIECE stiff, crippled by rheumatism → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 CARLISH stiff, hard, difficult to bend → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 STIFF AS BARKER’S KNEE very stiff → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 DEAD-STARK as stiff as a corpse → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1901 KEDGE stiff, tight → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 LEEDER-GROWN stiff in the joints or sinews for want of exercise → Eng. dial.  (Bk.)
1905 NASH firm, stiff, hard → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 THARF stark, stiff; heavy → Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1913 STOVE UP stiff from overwork → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1928 LEMSE stiff or halting in one’s movements, slow, sluggish, sloppy → Sc. 
1939 AGUEFIED pained, stiff, store, as with ague → Amer. dial.
1952 CRISS stiff, not pliable → chiefly Jamaican


ADVERBS
1867 POKERISHLY in a stiff and unyielding manner → obs.


NOUNS
1250 UNBUXOMHEAD stiffness of body → obs.
1644 CRICKLING a muscular ache or pain; a feeling of stiffness in the muscles → obs.
1680 CRICKLE a muscular ache or pain; a feeling of stiffness in the muscles → obs.
1766 RIGESCENCE a becoming stiff; stiffening
1880 — RAMRODISM military stiffness


NOUNS, PERSON
1913 CROBATE a poor stiff person or horse → Amer. dial. (Bk.)


VERBS
1374 CRAMPISH to cramp; to stiffen painfully, to paralyze → obs.
1807 POKER to stiffen up → obs. 
1898 SCRAGGLE to walk with difficulty; to bend the legs stiffly; to become stiff; to crawl about feebly, as a sick man → Eng. dial.
1959 COOPER UP to become stiff, unable to move, or exhausted → Amer. dial.
1973 TENSE UP to become stiff, ineffective, and semi-paralyzed from nervous tension → Amer. sl.