Stive

[staiv]

(v. t.) To stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling.

(v. i.) To be stifled or suffocated.

(n.) The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.

Editor: Verna

v. a. [1]. Stow, stuff close.[2]. Make hot, close, or sultry.

Checker: Micawber

v.i. (prov.) to stew to be stifled.—adj. Stī′vy close stuffy.

Checked by Leroy