Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Stive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stive \Stive\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stived}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Stiving}.] [Probably fr. F. estiver to compress, stow, L.
stipare: cf. It. stivare, Sp. estivar. Cf. {Stevedore},
{Stiff}.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stive \Stive\, v. i.
To be stifled or suffocated.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stive \Stive\, n.
The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or
grinding. --De Colange.
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.