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Entry 3 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Stive

· IPA /staɪv/
01 v. t. To stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling.
imp. & p. p. Stived; p. pr. & vb. n. Stiving
  1. 1.
    To stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling.
    “His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other.” — Sir H. Wotton.
02 v. i. To be stifled or suffocated.
  1. 1.
    To be stifled or suffocated.
03 n. The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.
  1. 1.
    The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.