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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 the eyelash or eyelid.

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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