What does "sty" mean?
Sty: A place of bestial debauchery. To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. Milton.
Additional senses
- 2.To shut up in, or as in, a sty. Shak.
- 3.To soar; to ascend; to mount. See Stirrup. [Obs.] With bolder wing shall dare aloft to sty, To the last praises of this Faery Queene. Spenser.
- 4.An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid. [Written also stye.]
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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