stive

English

Etymology 1

Apparently from a Middle Dutch noun related to stuiven and cognate to German Staub (“dust”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /staɪv/

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• stive-box, stive-room

Etymology 2

From Middle English stīven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /staɪv/

Verb

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

1. (UK, dialect, transitive, intransitive) To stew; 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, and ſtive them down for twenty four hours; […] .

Etymology 3

Noun

stive

1. Obsolete form of stew.

Etymology 4

Related to Italian stivàre, Portuguese estivar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /staɪv/

Verb

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

1. (transitive) Sometimes with up: to compress (something); to cram.
   • 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:

     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: […]

   • 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, published 1871, page 284:

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

Anagrams

• Vites

Danish

Adjective

stive

1. plural and definite singular attributive of stiv

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

stive f

1. plural of stiva

Anagrams

• vesti, vestì, viste

Middle English

Adjective

stive

1. Alternative form of stif

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

stive

1. definite singular of stiv
2. plural of stiv

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

stive

1. definite singular of stiv
2. plural of stiv