Also 8 stoop. [f. STUPE sb.1]
† 1. Trans. To moisten (lint, tow, etc.) in some hot liquid so as to form a stupe. Obs. rare–1.
c. 1540. Pract. Cyrurgyons, A i. Roulettes, stupes, or plagettes made of lynte,… stuped or dypped in hote Oyles.
2. To foment with a stupe or stupes.
1670. Narborough, Jrnl., in Acc. Sev. Late Voy., I. (1694), 52. They use bathing and stuping those places.
1735. Phil. Trans., XL. 426. The Abdomen was stuped twice a Day with an emollient Fomentation.
1747. Wesley, Prim. Physick (1762), 100. Stoop it [a sprain] with one spoonful of Brandy, two of Vinegar and four of Water.
1843. in R. J. Graves, Syst. Clin. Med., xxix. 390. I … stuped the part with warm water and laudanum.
1892. Cassell’s Fam. Mag., March, 211/1. [She] developed a tiresome face-ache, which no amount of stuping with poppy-heads could bring into visiting shape.
