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Definition of Stopped-up
1. Adjective. (of a nose) blocked. "A stopped (or stopped-up) nose"
2. Adjective. Having narrow opening filled.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stopped-up
Literary usage of Stopped-up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law Reports by James Redfoord Bulwer (1872)
"88, when any such certificate shall have been given, any person who may think
that he would be injured if such highway should be stopped up, may make, ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: In by Sandford Nevile, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, William Montagu Manning (1839)
"Veal (a) there would have been a dedication to the public, had not the passage
been stopped up at one end. It would have been idle to stop up Bond's Lane by ..."
3. The Civil War in Song and Story, 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"... were too much lor any poor man's nerves, and he yielded, and getting on a
horse, he took them seven miles to the -hig road. road is stopped up. ..."
4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"... sinking condition ; but her efficient commander stopped up the le;¡k, while
the Mackinaw fought out the battle, notwithstanding the damage she received. ..."
5. The Review of Applied Entomology by Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Imperial Bureau of Entomology (1916)
"The belts were put on in autumn, or in February, the trees being previously
covered with milk of lime, so that all cracks, etc., should be stopped up. ..."
6. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"[As the English Gamer has modernised spelling, we cannot tell what was the spelling
of the original here.] SHINGLE. 'Their haven isso. . .often stopped up ..."
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