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Stime vs Stive - What's the difference?

stime | stive |

As nouns the difference between stime and stive

is that stime is (uk|dialect) a slight gleam or glimmer; a glimpse while stive is (obsolete) a stew.

As a verb stive is

to be stifled or suffocated.

stime

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A slight gleam or glimmer; a glimpse.
    • (Halliwell)
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    stive

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) A stew.
  • The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
    • (De Colange)
  • * 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.

    Derived terms

    * stive-box, stive-room

    Verb

    (stiv)
  • To be stifled or suffocated.
  • 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, , 1996 Bicentennial Facsimile Edition, page 64,
    • Let your cucumbers be ?mall, fre?h gathered, and free from ?pots; then make a pickle of ?alt and water, ?trong enough to bear an egg; boil the pickle and ?kim it well, and then pour it upon your cucumbers, and ?tive 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 , , Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom , 1871, page 284,
    • "Things are a good deal stived up," answered the Deacon.
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