Costive /(k?s"t?v)/

Cos·tive

Costive

a.
  1. Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.
  2. Reserved; formal; close; cold. [Obs.]
    You must be frank, but without indiscretion; and close, but without being costive.
    — Lord Chesterfield.
  3. Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding. [Obs.]
    Clay in dry seasons is costive, hardening with the sun and wind.