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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Stiff·en·ing, n.
 1. Act or process of making stiff.
 2. Something used to make anything stiff.
 Stiffening order Com., a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.