stive

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.

• stive-box, stive-room

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

1. (Britain, dialectal, 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.

• Vites

stive

1. plural and definite singular attributive of stiv

• Rhymes: -ive

stive f

1. plural of stiva

• vesti, vestì, viste

stive

1. Alternative form of stif

stive

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

stive

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