Apparently from aMiddle Dutch noun related tostuiven and cognate toGermanStaub(“dust”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /staɪv/

stive

1. Thefloatingdust in aflourmill caused by the operation ofgrinding.^[2]
   • 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

FromMiddle Englishstīven.

• IPA^(key): /staɪv/

stive (third-person singular simple presentstives,present participlestiving,simple past and past participlestived)

1. (UK, dialect, transitive, intransitive) Tostew; to be stifled or suffocated.
   • 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, andſtive them down for twenty four hours; […] .

stive

1. Obsolete form ofstew.

Related toItalianstivàre,Portugueseestivar.

• IPA^(key): /staɪv/

stive (third-person singular simple presentstives,present participlestiving,simple past and past participlestived)

1. (transitive)Sometimes withup: tocompress (something); tocram.
   • c.1635 (date written),Henry Wotton, “OfRobert Devereux, Earl of Essex; andGeorge Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, inReliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; […], London: […] Thomas Maxey, forR[ichard] Marriot, G[abriel] Bedel, and T[imothy] Garthwait, published1651,→OCLC,page18:

     His chamber being commonlyſtived 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:[…]

   • 1836, T. S. Davis, editor,Kitchen Poetry: Every Body’s Album, volume 1,page172:

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

   • 1851,Sylvester Judd,Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom, published1871,page284:

     "Things are a good dealstived up," answered the Deacon.

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stive

1. plural anddefinitesingularattributive ofstiv

• IPA^(key): /ˈsti.ve/
• Rhymes:-ive
• Hyphenation:stì‧ve

stive f

1. plural ofstiva

• vesti,vestì,viste

stive

1. Alternative form ofstif

stive

1. definitesingular ofstiv
2. plural ofstiv

stive

1. definitesingular ofstiv
2. plural ofstiv

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