English

Noun

stive

1. (obsolete) A stew.
2. The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of De Colange to this entry?)

   • 1867, The British Farmer's Magazine, Volum LII, New Series, page 231,

     The removal of the heated air, steam, stive, and flour from the millstones, is a proposition which does not appear to be more than sufficiently well understood.

Derived terms

• stive-box, stive-room

Verb

stive ‎(third-person singular simple present stives, present participle stiving, simple past and past participle stived)

1. (intransitive) To be stifled or suffocated.
2. (transitive, sometimes with "up") To compress, to cram; to make close and hot; to render stifling.
   • Sir H. Wotton

     His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other.

   • 1796, Amelia Simmons, American Cookery, 1996 Bicentennial Facsimile Edition, page 64,

     Let your cucumbers be ſmall, freſh gathered, and free from ſpots; then make a pickle of ſalt and water, ſtrong enough to bear an egg; boil the pickle and ſkim it well, and then pour it upon your cucumbers, and ſtive them down for twenty four hours; […] .

   • 1836, T. S. Davis (editor), Kitchen Poetry, Every Body's Album, Volume 1, page 172,

     And here I mist stay, / In this stived up kitchen to work all day.

   • 1851, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom, 1871, page 284,

     "Things are a good deal stived up," answered the Deacon.

Danish

Adjective

stive

1. plural and definite singular attributive of stiv

Italian

Noun

stive f

1. plural of stiva

Anagrams

• vesti, vestì, viste

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

stive

1. definite singular of stiv
2. plural form of stiv

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

stive

1. definite singular of stiv
2. plural form of stiv