sty

sty
    n 1: an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid [syn:
         {sty}, {stye}, {hordeolum}, {eye infection}]
    2: a pen for swine [syn: {sty}, {pigsty}, {pigpen}]
    

Sty \Sty\ (st[imac]), n.; pl. {Sties} (st[imac]z). [Written also
   {stigh}.] [AS. stigu, fr. st[imac]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.
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   2. A place of bestial debauchery.
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            To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. --Milton.
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Sty \Sty\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stied} (st[imac]d); p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Stying} (st[imac]"[i^]ng).]
   To shut up in, or as in, a sty. --Shak.
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Sty \Sty\, v. i. [OE. stien, sti[yogh]en, AS. st[imac]gan to
   rise; akin to D. stijgen, OS. & OHG. st[imac]gan, G. steigen,
   Icel. st[imac]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.]
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         With bolder wing shall dare aloft to sty,
         To the last praises of this Faery Queene. --Spenser.
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Sty \Sty\, n. [For older styan, styanye, understood as sty on
   eye, AS. st[imac]gend (sc. e['a]ge eye), properly, rising, or
   swelling (eye), p. p. of st[imac]gan to rise. See {Sty}, v.
   i.] (Med.)
   An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.
   [Written also {stye}.]
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143 Moby Thesaurus words for "sty":
      Augean stables, Sodom, abscess, amaurosis, aposteme, bed sore,
      birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb, blemish, blepharitis, blister,
      boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle,
      cataract, cesspit, cesspool, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain,
      choroiditis, cicatrix, cold sore, comedo, conjunctivitis, crack,
      crater, craze, cross-eye, defacement, defect, defective vision,
      deformation, deformity, den, detached retina, disfiguration,
      disfigurement, distortion, dump, eschar, esotropia, eye defect,
      fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, flaw,
      freckle, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, glaucoma, gumboil,
      gutta serena, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, hole, hovel, iritis,
      keloid, keratitis, kibe, kink, lentigo, lesion, milium, mole,
      needle scar, nevus, optic neuritis, pandemonium, papula, papule,
      paronychia, parulis, pesthole, petechia, pigpen, pigsty, piles,
      pimple, pink eye, pit, plague spot, pock, pockmark, polyp,
      port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, retinoblastoma, rift,
      rising, rookery, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, slum,
      soft chancre, sore, split, stable, stigma, strawberry mark,
      suppuration, swelling, tenement, the slums, trachoma, track,
      tubercle, tumbledown shack, twist, ulcer, ulceration, uveitis,
      verruca, vesicle, wale, walleye, warp, warren, wart, weal, welt,
      wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, wound