Definition of stive

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

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Digestive :: Digestive (n.) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration..
Secretion :: Secretion (n.) The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions..
Stoak :: Stives (n. pl.) Stews; a brothel.
Pancreatin :: Pancreatin (n.) One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion..
Tempestivily :: Tempestivily (n.) The quality, or state, of being tempestive; seasonableness..
Indicative :: Indicative (a.) Suggestive; representing the whole by a part, as a fleet by a ship, a forest by a tree, etc..
Eupepsy :: Eupepsy (n.) Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion; -- opposed to dyspepsia.
Zooid :: Zooid (n.) One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydroidea, and Bryozoa; -- sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed..
Synergy :: Synergy (n.) the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy..
Assistive :: Assistive (a.) Lending aid, helping..
Stiving :: Stived (imp. & p. p.) of Stiv.
Restiff :: Restiff (n.) A restive or stubborn horse.
Costive :: Costive (a.) Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.
Festivous :: Festivous (a.) Pertaining to a feast; festive.
Convivial :: Convivial (a.) Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial..
Hastive :: Hastive (n.) Forward; early; -- said of fruits.
Agastric :: Agastric (a.) Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm..
Bile :: Bile (n.) A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters..
Duodenum :: Duodenum (n.) The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive..
Concoctive :: Concoctive (a.) Having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive.
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