Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Slive \Slive\, v. i. [Cf. {Slip}.]
   To sneak. [Prov. Eng.]

Slive \Slive\, v. t. [OE. sliven to split, cleave, AS.
   sl[=i]fan.]
   To cut; to split; to separate. [Obs.] --Holland.