Also stuppa. [L. stūpa, more correctly stuppa, tow = late Gr. στύππη.]

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  1.  = STUPE sb.1 Only in Dicts.

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1693.  trans. Blancard’s Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Stupea, seu stupa, a piece of linnen dipt in a liquor, and applied to the part affected. Ibid., Stuppa or Stupa, the same with Stupea.

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1706.  Phillips (ed. Kersey), Stupa or Stupea, the course part of Flax, Tow, Hards, Ockam to calk Ships with; also a Stupe us’d by Surgeons.

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1875.  Knight, Dict. Mech., Stupa, tow used as a pledget, compress, or as a wad in fomentations.

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  2.  Bot. (See quots.) Only in Dicts.

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1856.  Henslow, Dict. Bot. Terms, Stupa, a tuft or mass of hair or fine filament matted together.

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1866.  Treas. Bot., Stupa, tow; a tuft of long hairs.

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1900.  B. D. Jackson, Gloss. Bot. Terms, Stupa or Stuppa.

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