Definition of Stieve

1. firm [adj STIEVER, STIEVEST] - See also: firm

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stieve

sticky wicket
stickybeak
stickybeaks
stickying
stiction
stictional
stictions
stiddie
stiddied
stiddies
stiddiest
stiddy
stie
stied
sties
stieve (current term)
stievely
stiever
stievest
stifado
stiff-arm
stiff-backed
stiff-hearted
stiff-necked
stiff-tailed duck
stiff-tailed ducks
stiff aster
stiff gentian
stiff person syndrome

Literary usage of Stieve

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1876)
"A stieve HEART AND A STURDY STEP. Ne'er trow the day will lour throughout, although the dawn be dark; Ne'er dream ye're doomed to drag through life, ..."

2. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1901)
"To an ampler treatment of the Thirty Years' War stieve would, as an original historian, have addressed himself with the impartiality born not of ..."

3. A Selection of Cases on the Conflict of Laws by Joseph Henry Beale (1902)
"stieve, syndic of the bankruptcy in Alsace-Lorraine, ... stieve finds in the account current opened by the branch of the Bank of Alsace-Lorraine with the ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"stieve and revis«! by MAYR (Munich, 1905); vol. VIII: Von Am Rüstungen Herma Maxim, von R. Ыя zürn Aufbruch der Passauer, ed. stieve and revised by MAYR ..."

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