Forms: α. 4–7 tutie, (6 thutie), 5–8 tuty, (5 tutye, tuthye); β. in Latinized form 6–9 tutia, (6 tucia, 7 tussia); γ. 6– tutty, (7 tuttie, tutti). [a. F. tutie (13th c. in Wr.-Wülcker, 559/13) = Sp. tutia, atutia, Pg. and med.L. tutia (erron. tucia); a. Arab. tūtiyā oxide of zinc (marked as a foreign word in Arabic lists, perh. Persian). Vullers compares the Sanskrit tuttha blue vitriol, used as an eye-ointment, and this is favored by the statement of Ibn Baitar that the best tūtiyā comes from India.] A crude oxide of zinc found adhering in grey or brownish flakes to the flues of furnaces in which brass is melted (cf. POMPHOLYX); also occurring in some countries as a native mineral; formerly used medically, chiefly in astringent ointments and lotions, and now as a polishing powder. Also attrib. as tutty ointment, powder.
α. c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 95. Anoynte þe wounde … with þis oynement of rasis & tutie [v.rr. tutye, tuthye].
c. 1400. trans. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh., lxxxvii. 95. Stones, Margarites, Corale, Tuty, and alany, and swylk lyk.
1541. R. Copland, Galyen’s Terap., 2 H j b. Pampholix commonly called thutie.
c. 1550. H. Lloyd, Treas. Health (1585), ¶ ij. Tuty doth dry and clear the eyes, more than all medycynes.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXX. viii. II. 384. The tried grease of unwashed wooll, (whereunto some adde Tutie and oile of Roses).
1610. B. Jonson, Alch., II. iii. 398. Your marchesite your tutie, your magnesia.
[1656–1706. in Blount and Phillips.]
β. 1543. Traheron, Vigo’s Chirurg., 107 b/1. Let the sayd thynges be boyled togyther, excepte the tutia.
1581. Styward, Mart. Discipl., I. 12. They ought to haue … greate store of … Tarre, Campher, Waxe, Tucia, Ars-nicke.
1615. Markham, Eng. Housew. (1660), 17. Take two drams of prepared Tussia.
1652. Culpepper, Eng. Physic. (1656), 308. For Distillations of Rhewms in the Eyes, especially if it be used with Tutia.
1678. R. R[ussell], Geber, III. II. I. iv. 149. Tutia is the fume of White Bodies.
1737–41. [see γ].
γ. 1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, ccv. 71. To bedwarde anoynt the eyes divers tymes with Tutty.
1605. Timme, Quersit., III. 179. Infuse tuttie and lytharge, of each two ounces.
1682. Wheler, Journ. Greece, III. 223. I was shewed a dried Herb … whereof the Powder is made, we commonly call Tutti.
1727–41. Chambers, Cycl., Tutty, Tutia, or Lapis Tutiæ.… Tutty is now brought chiefly from Germany. Anciently it came from Alexandria.
1731. Fielding, Grubstreet Opera, II. iv. Your bills for tutty and rotten-stone, when you us’d nothing but poor whiting.
1812. J. Smyth, Pract. of Customs (1821), 119. The better sorts of Tutty … are in semi-cylindrical concave pieces, like the bark of a tree; ponderous, and somewhat sonorous.
1868. Watts, Dict. Chem., V. 1073. An impure oxide, sold under the name of tutty, is obtained from the furnaces in which brass is melted.
1883. Chambers’ Encycl., Tutty-powder.
1890. Cent. Dict., s.v. Ointment, Tutty ointment.
