stith

strong; stiff; rigid

Adjective

  1. strong; stiff; rigid

Origin

From Middle English stith (“steady, strong, cruel”), from Old English stīþ (“hard, cruel”), from Proto-West Germanic *stinþ, from Proto-Germanic *stinþaz. Compare also Old Frisian stīth, Middle Low German stīde, Middle Dutch stīde, Old Norse stinnr, Danish stind, Swedish stinn.

Forms

more stith most stith

Noun

  1. An anvil; a stithy.
    • strike on the stith while the iron was hot - 1584, Robert Greene, the Card of Fancy:

Origin

From Middle English stith, from Old Norse steði. Compare stithy.

Forms

stiths