Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stye"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stye \Stye\, n.
See {Sty}, a boil.
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)
stye
n : an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid [syn: {sty},
{hordeolum}, {eye infection}]
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