Bible Dictionaries
Stive

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

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

(2):

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

(3):

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Stive'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/stive.html. 1828.