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Stupe   Listen
noun
Stupe  n.  (Med.) Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.



Stupe  n.  A stupid person. (Obs.)



verb
Stupe  v. t.  (past & past part. stuped; pres. part. stuping)  To foment with a stupe.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Stupe" Quotes from Famous Books



... drink milk and father wanted the milkman to go down celler to try some of his vinegar. mother hangs the wash boiler and the tin pans and iron kittles in the celler way and when ennyone whitch is tall goes down celler he has to stupe down so not to nock down the pans and kittles. so father he was down celler and he holered for the milkman to come down and when he went down he hit his head aginst the boiler and nocked it down and all the kittles and pans tumbled down on his head and went banging down into the celler ...
— 'Sequil' - Or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First • Henry A. Shute

... a piece of flannel, big enough to cover the area which it is desired to affect, wring it out of as hot water as it is possible. Upon this sprinkle twenty drops of spirits of turpentine. Place the stupe wherever it is desired and cover with a piece of oiled silk or dry flannel. The turpentine stupe is mostly used in pain of the abdominal cavity. In colic from acute indigestion it is a very convenient means of quieting the child ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • Grant Hague

... externally, Hops as a poultice, or when steeped in a bag, in very hot water as a stupe, will relieve muscular rheumatism, ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie



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