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1 Buckram -- rank: 1000

Buckram definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary BUCK'RAM, n. A coarse ... the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" [syn: starchy, stiff, buckram] n 1: a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used ... to stiffen clothing v 1: stiffen with or as with buckram; "buckram the skirt" Merriam Webster's I. noun Etymology: Middle English ... 2. archaic stiffness, rigidity II. adjective Date: circa 1589 suggesting buckram especially in stiffness III. transitive verb Date: 1783 1. ...

2 Stiff -- rank: 551

... the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" [syn: starchy, stiff, buckram] 4: having a strong physiological or chemical effect; "a potent ... Formal, constrained, ceremonious, punctilious, prim, starch, stately, chilling, frigid, in buckram. 6. Inelegant, cramped, harsh, crude, graceless, abrupt. 7. Strong, fresh ... bo, body, bold, bombastic, bones, boorish, boundless, breadwinner, brisk, brittle, buckram, budmash, bum, bumbling, bummer, bungling, butterfingered, cadaver, caitiff, carcass, careless ... hurtful, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, idler, immoderate, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, in buckram, inane, incontinent, indomitable, industrial worker, inelastic, inelegant, inexcitable, inexorable, inflexible ... starchy, stark, staunch, steady, steely, steep, sterile, stern, stiff as buckram, stiffened, stilted, stodgy, stone-cold, stone-dead, stoned, straightlaced, ...

3 Rigid -- rank: 392

... Thesaurus abiding, accurate, adamant, adamantine, at a standstill, attentive, austere, buckram, careful, cast-iron, changeless, close, conscientious, constant, continuing, correct, critical ... headstrong, hidebound, immobile, immotile, immotive, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, in buckram, inelastic, inerrable, inerrant, inexorable, infallible, inflexible, infrangible, intact, intransigent, inviolate ... static, stationary, staunch, staying, steadfast, steely, stern, stiff, stiff as buckram, stilted, stout, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, strict, stringent, strong, stubborn ...

4 Starched -- rank: 392

... of the Vulgar Tongue Stiff, prim, formal, affected. Moby Thesaurus buckram, firm, in buckram, pokerlike, prim, ramrodlike, renitent, rigid, rodlike, starch, starchy, stiff, stiff as buckram, stilted, taut, tense, tight, unrelaxed, virgate

5 Starchy -- rank: 392

... the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" [syn: starchy, stiff, buckram] Merriam Webster's adjective (starchier; -est) Date: 1802 1. containing ... rodlike, ropy, slabby, slimy, slithery, starched, sticky, stiff, stiff as buckram, stodgy, stringy, syrupy, tacky, taut, tenacious, tense, thick, thickened, tight ...

6 Drive -- rank: 309

... a blow; to strike at with force. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me. Drive, in all its senses, implies ... blow; to strike with force; to attack. ``Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.'' --Shak. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Drive ...

7 stilted -- rank: 309

... Latinate, affected, artificial, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big-sounding, bloated, bombastic, buckram, cardboard, clumsy, conventional, convoluted, cramped, cumbrous, declamatory, decorous, elephantine, elevated ... high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, in buckram, inflated, inkhorn, la-di-da, labored, labyrinthine, leaden, lexiphanic, lifted ...

8 Prim -- rank: 309

... n. Privet, print (Ligustrum vulgare). Moby Thesaurus Quakerish, Victorian, bluenosed, buckram, censorious, ceremonial, ceremonious, chipper, conventional, correct, decorous, demure, formal, genteel, hidebound, in buckram, mid-Victorian, narrow, neat, nice, old-maidish, orderly, overmodest, precise ...

9 Bocasine -- rank: 309

... Dictionary BOC'ASINE, n. A sort of fine linen or buckram. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Bocasine Boc"a*sine, n. [F. bocassin, boucassin.] A sort of fine buckram.

10 Pomp -- rank: 196

... be, I have saved my pimp. Moby Thesaurus array, brilliance, buckram, caravan, cavalcade, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, circumstance, column, cortege, cosmorama, cyclorama ...

11 interfacing -- rank: 196

... shape retention Oxford Reference Dictionary n. a stiffish material, esp. buckram, between two layers of fabric in collars etc.

12 Form -- rank: 196

... body-build, bones, brand, break, break in, breed, bring up, buckram, build, build up, building, built, burrow, bylaw, canon, canon form ...

13 Firm -- rank: 196

... steadfast, steadfastly, steady, steel, steely, stern, stick, stiff, stiff as buckram, stipulated, stock company, stormproof, stormtight, stout, straightlaced, straitlaced, strict, strong ...

14 Wooden -- rank: 196

... Thesaurus arid, awkward, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, blunt, blunt-witted, buckram, bumbling, cardboard, characterless, clumsy, cold, colorless, dead, deadpan, dim, dim ...

15 Weight -- rank: 196

... bitter draught, bitter pill, black power, bob, brim, brute force, buckram, burden, burden of care, burden with, burthen, cankerworm of care ...