stiffe

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of stiff.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“My hands are so stiffe and nummie, that I can hardly write⟳ for my selfe, so that what I have⟳ once scribled, I had rather frame it anew than take⟳ the paines to correct⟳ it; and I reade but little better.”

“if he finds not good ſtore of vailers , vailers, hee comes home ſtiffe and ſeer”

“Thus alſo the wounded members are moſt hardly cured, when by much effuſion of blood and ſpirits they are become⟳ ſtiffe and benummed.”

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