Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Stiving"
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.
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