stive

1. The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.

   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.

present singular third person stives · participle present stiving · participle past stived · past stived

1. UKdialectalintransitivetransitiveTo stew; to be stifled or suffocated.

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   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; […] .

1. obsoleteObsolete form of stew.

present singular third person stives · participle present stiving · participle past stived · past stived

1. transitiveSometimes with up: to compress (something); to cram.

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

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

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   His chamber being commonly ſtived vvith Friends or Suiters of one kind or other, vvhen he gave his legs, armes, and breſt to his ordinary ſervants to button and dreſſe him vvith little heed, […] then the Gentleman of his Robes throvving a cloak over his ſhoulders, he vvould make a ſtep into his Cloſet, and after a ſhort prayer, he vvas gone: […]

   c. 1635 (date written), Henry Wotton, “Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; […], London: […] Thomas Maxey, for R[ichard] Marriot, G[abriel] Bedel, and T[imothy] Garthwait, published 1651, →OCLC, page 18

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

   1836, T. S. Davis, editor, Kitchen Poetry: Every Body’s Album, volume 1, page 172