rare. [It. = next.]
1. = STUFE.
1832. Gell, Pompeiana, I. vi. 85. A heated stufa.
2. (See quot.)
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol. (1835), I. II. iii. 304. In many volcanic regions, jets of steam, called by the Italians ‘stufas,’ issue from fissures, at a temperature high above the boiling point.
