STY

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A pen or inclosure for swine.

2.
n.

A place of bestial debauchery. To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. Milton.

3.
v.

To shut up in, or as in, a sty. Shak.

4.
v.

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.

5.
n.

An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid. [Written also stye.]


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