Category:Stive

Stive, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stived; p. pr. & vb. n. Stiving.] Etym: [probably fr. F. estiver to compress, stow, l. stipare: cf. It. Stivare, sp. estivar. Cf. Stevedore, stiff.]

Defn: to stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; To render stifling. Sandys. His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind Or other. Sir h. Wotton.

Stive Stive, v. i.

Defn: to be stifled or suffocated.

Stive Stive, n.

Defn: the floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or Grinding. De colange.