Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Inflammation of one or more sebaceous glands of an eyelid.
- noun A pigsty.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To go upward; mount; ascend; soar.
- To mount (upon a horse).
- To aspire.
- noun An ascent; an ascending lane or path; any narrow pathway or course.
- noun A step upward; a stair.
- noun A ladder.
- To occupy a sty or hovel; live in a sty.
- To lodge in a sty or hovel; pen up.
- noun A pen or inclosure for swine; a pigsty.
- noun Hence A filthy hovel or place: any place of mean living or bestial debauchery.
- noun A circumscribed inflammatory swelling of the edge of the eyelid, like a small boil; hordeolurn. Also spelled
stye .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To shut up in, or as in, a sty.
- intransitive verb obsolete To soar; to ascend; to mount. See
stirrup . - noun (Med.) An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.
- noun A pen or inclosure for swine.
- noun A place of bestial debauchery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology An
inflammation of theeyelid . - noun UK, dialectal A
ladder . - noun A
pen orenclosure forswine . - noun A
messy ordirty place. - verb To place in a sty.
- verb To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
- noun a pen for swine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Does the writer delicately hesitate to call a sty a sty, or has the internment of the food-hog really begun?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 Various
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He kept a pig, and was wont to boast that he possessed the highest pigsty and the lowest barn in the country, because the sty was a structure of his own erection, in the old brick tower, above the level of the surrounding ground; while his straw was stored in an excavation (still existing) several feet below.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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That bit of our heritage was a brazen statement about the promise, and the pig sty, that is democracy - that only a completely open society, tolerant of all views, would thrive.
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Blepharitis is inflammation of the edges of the eyelids; conjunctivitis is inflammation of the membrane that lines the eyelids and connects to the eyeball; iritis is inflammation of the iris; scleritis is inflammation of the white part of the eyeball, uveitis is inflammation of the pigmented inner parts of the eye; a sty is an inflammation of an oil-secreting gland on or near the edge of an eyelid; a chalazion is a small, hard tumor that forms on the edge of an eyelid.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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In the room over the sty is a bin which must be filled with the fallen apples before any nuts can be gathered. "
Driven Back to Eden Edward Payson Roe 1863
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In addition to recording the pig's life, Herbert used parts of the animal to make musical instruments, such as a drum made from the pig's skin, a musical pig sty, and a wind instrument that uses the pig's blood.
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“You'd think some of these families lived in a pig sty,” he says as he pokes at a discarded orange rind using a stick with a nail embedded in one end.
Girls U-10 Soccer Yakuza Con Chapman 2011
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Thor, your whole "I'm too erudite to wallow in the sty of mediocrity with the rest of you pigs because I read * serious* books in third grade" schtick is seriously underwhelming me here.
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Reply to this dominic the chinese government is a corrupt pig sty we can face the thought of animals going extinct but to say that the chinese overnment is litterealy driving the uyguhrs to extinction is sickening.
Global Voices in English » The Uyghurs: Persecuted Muslim Minority in NorthWest China 2009
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In the last CNN debate, Newt Gingrich announced that he was interested in debating President Barack Obama in seven, three-hour long debates in the sty...
Herman Cain Will Help Newt Gingrich Realize His Dream Of Re-Enacting The Lincoln-Douglas Debates The Huffington Post News Team 2011
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