Middle English Dictionary Entry
stū̆pe n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | stū̆pe n.(1) Pl. stū̆pes, stuppes & stoppes. |
| Etymology | L stuppa, stūpa & OF estope, estoupe, stoppe, AF estup(p)e, stupe. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Pl. The refuse or coarser parts of flax or hemp, hards; ~ of tou; (b) pl. hards of flax or hemp prepared and used as the raw material for cloth, tow; (c) surg. a small piece of cloth made from tow or other material, used in fomenting wounds and other applications, a stupe.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)249b/b : Hvrden hatte Stupa and is..offall of hempe oþer of fflex. ]
- a1500 Leg.Cross BC(1) (Wor F.172)220 : A womman..hir clothes biganne to brenne as stuppis of tow [L stupe].
b
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)319/31 : Vpon þis ligature þou schalt leie faldellam maad of stupis [L stupeam], & he schal oonly be wet in water & leid vpon.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)55a/b : It is founden for to make hem of stupez canabinez, i. of hempe [Ch.(2): hempe towe].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)99a/b : Som..emplastreþ & putteþ..plumaciolez of stupez [Ch.(2): made of towe; L de stupata].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)103b/b : Be he bounden in puttyng a balle of stupes or cloþ in þe armehole.
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)149a/b : Þe plumaciolis & þe pressuris of stuppis wett in wiyn, with þe whiche plumaciolis þe wounde..schal be baþid a litil while.
c
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)53/2 : Wiþinne þe wounde leie þe ȝelke of an ey, wiþ oile of rosis, with stupis [L plumaceolis], or ellis wiþ lint.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)227/11 : Þis is good þerfore: lie of askis & of vryne, & wete þerinne stupis [L stupa] & leie vpon þe enpostym.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)319/12,14 : Make stupis..& wete hem in hoot water in winter & in coold water in somer, & þan wrynge out þi stupis þerof.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)59b/b : Þe white of eiren shaken or sterred with softe stupe [Ch.(2): towh; L stupata]..It restreyneth blode.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)173a/a : Be þer craftili bounden aboue stupez balneate in wyne & expressed bi a ligature incarnatif.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)96a/a : Tederik leiþ but stoppes wette in hote wyne apon þe wounde.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)26/15-16 : Put aboue lynnen stupez kutted smal wiþ sherez, and aboue þe stupes a lynnen cloute.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)44/16 : In þe hole..be putte vnguentum viride vpon a stupe; and euery day be it tuyse remoued.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)87/15 : Þan owe þou for to putte in þe hole..of þe wonde..sanguis veneris, with stuppez of lyne or coton.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)79a/a : Wiþinne þe wounde leye þe ȝelke of an ey temperid with oile of rosis leyd vpon payletis of lynet or ellis vpon stupis of towȝ.
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)165a/a : The firste schal be curid wiþ wine & stuppis & bindinge.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. stupe.