stive
English
Noun
stive
- (obsolete) A stew.
- 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.
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Verb
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- (UK, dialect, intransitive) To be stifled or suffocated.
- (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.
- Sir H. Wotton
Anagrams
Danish
Adjective
stive
- plural and definite singular attributive of stiv
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ive
Noun
stive f
Anagrams
Middle English
Adjective
stive
- Alternative form of stif
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
stive
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
stive
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