Definition of "sive" [sive]

• An obsolete spelling of sieve.
• A dialectal variant of scythe. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "This com­pany Mas­sive is sell­ing videogame ad-space in a very tra­di­tional way."
• "Are you paying attention at all? of ⋅ fen ⋅ sive    "
• "For the seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher who had so impressed Einstein, God and nature were as one deus sive natura, and the practice of doing math was tantamount to a quest for the divine."