Stive
Stive , transitive verb
[Probably from French estiver to compress, stow, Latin stipare: compare Italian stivare, Sp. estivar. Compare Stevedore, Stiff.]
To stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling. — Sandys
His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other.
Stive , intransitive verb
To be stifled or suffocated.
Stive , noun
The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding. — De Colange