Stíf

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - stíf

According to the Old English Dictionary:

stíf
adj. Stiff, unbending, rigid:--Stífne rigentem, Germ. 394, 272. [He ches stiue here to shurte, O. E. Homl. ii. 139, 16. He (the dead man) biþ sone stif, Fragm. Phlps. 5, 45. Stif he wes on þonke, Laym. 2110. Sa strang and stijf in fight, C. M. 18140. Þat plaid (plea) was stif and starc and strong, O. and N. 5. Du. stijf: M. H. Ger. stíf: Ger. steif: Dan. stiv: Swed. styf.]

Related words: stífian. stif

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