stypsis

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

stypsis (stipsis), is, f., = στύψις,

the contracting power , tendency : vini, astringency , Cassiod. Var. 12, 4 (in Cael. Aur. Tard. 4, 1, 1, as Greek).