'Sty' definitions:
Definition of 'sty'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
Definition of 'Sty'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sty'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A place of bestial debauchery. [1913 Webster]
- To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sty'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Sty'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- With bolder wing shall dare aloft to sty, To the last praises of this Faery Queene. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abscess,
- amaurosis,
- aposteme,
- Augean stables,
- 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,
- Sodom,
- 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