Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sty"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sty \Sty\, n.; pl. {Sties}. [Written also {stigh}.] [AS. stigu,
fr. st[=i]gan to rise; originally, probably, a place into
which animals climbed or went up. [root]164. See {Sty}, v.
i., and cf. {Steward}.]
1. A pen or inclosure for swine.
2. A place of bestial debauchery.
To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sty \Sty\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Stying}.]
To shut up in, or as in, a sty. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sty \Sty\, v. i. [OE. stien, sti?en, AS. st[=i]gan to rise; akin
to D. stijgen, OS. & OHG. st[=i]gan, G. steigen, Icel.
st[=i]ga, Sw. stiga, Dan. stige, Goth. steigan, L. vestigium
footstep, Gr. ? to walk, to go, Skr. stigh to mount. Cf.
{Distich}, {Stair} steps, {Stirrup}, {Sty} a boil, a pen for
swine, {Vestige}.]
To soar; to ascend; to mount. See {Stirrup}. [Obs.]
With bolder wing shall dare aloft to sty, To the last
praises of this Faery Queene. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sty \Sty\, n. [For older styan, styanye, understood as sty on
eye, AS. st[=i]gend (sc. e['a]ge eye), properly, rising, or
swelling (eye), p. p. of st[=i]gan to rise. See {Sty}, v. i.]
(Med.)
An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.
[Written also {stye}.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sty
n 1: an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid [syn: {stye},
{hordeolum}, {eye infection}]
2: a pen for swine [syn: {pigsty}, {pigpen}]
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