Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old spelling of
sty , sty. - noun Same as
sty .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
sty , a boil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology A
bacterial infection in theeyelash oreyelid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
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Examples
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= -- A stye is a boil on the eyelid; it begins at the root of a hair as a hard swelling which may extend to the whole lid.
The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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Stye-The scientific name for a stye is a hordeolum.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Janell.ross 2010
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Eyelid infection, caused by a stye was the official diagnosis, and I was given some erthomycin and told to get the stye lanced if it did not get better in a few days.
Al's Ramblings Al 2010
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Eyelid infection, caused by a stye was the official diagnosis, and I was given some erthomycin and told to get the stye lanced if it did not get better in a few days.
Al's Ramblings Al 2010
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_What is the treatment of a "stye" on the eye-lid_?
Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children Pye Henry Chavasse 1844
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I am extremely close to someone who has been in the New Orleans home of one of your aforementioned celebrities and it is a pig stye … so no worries, life gets messy, I on the other hand am being stalked by a rather large and angry looking dust bunny right now …
Good Housekeeping: Totally Slobtastic Slackermom Edition | Her Bad Mother 2009
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Combining the old with the new, Hockey exhibits this digital series in an old fashion stye exhibit, displaying various drawings together in a geometric grid-like manner.
David Hockney Trades In His Drawing Pad For An iPad Sophia Moreno-Bunge 2010
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Combining the old with the new, Hockey exhibits this digital series in an old fashion stye exhibit, displaying various drawings together in a geometric grid-like manner.
David Hockney Trades In His Drawing Pad For An iPad The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Because my bus leaves soon and I have a stye in my eye so large I can hardly see the computer screen, I'll break down the trip by its highlights:
Archive 2009-01-01 KateG 2009
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I did not care for Bush II, but I like his stye about leading.
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