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5 definitions found 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 1.6 [wn]: sty n 1: an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid [syn: {stye}, {hordeolum}, {eye infection}] 2: an enclosure for swine [syn: {pigsty}, {pigpen}]
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