▪ I. sive
(also 5–6, 9 syve, 6 syue, siue),
variant spelling of cive chive n.1
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 457/2 Syvys, herbe. 1562 Turner Herbal ii. (1568) 101 The moste parte of the writers of herballes in Germany, teach that our Sive..is porrum sativum. 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Civot, cive, or Civette, a chiboll, siues, scalions. 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 171 Sives are a diminutive kind of Leek. 1874 M. E. Whitcombe Bygone Days in Devon & Cornw. 47 The fairies had even their musicians, whose hautboys were of syves. |
▪ II. sive
obs. form of sieve.