Stive

·vi To be stifled or suffocated.

II. Stive ·noun The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.

III. Stive ·vt To Stuff; to Crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling.

stive
dust. Pembrokeshire, where DUST implies only saw-dust. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
to stive up
To stuff up close.--Johnson. Things are a good deal stived up. People's minds are sour, and I don't...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.