sty
sty is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A place of bestial debauchery. To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. Milton.
- 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.]
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is a place of bestial debauchery. To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. Milton called?
- What is 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 called?
- What is an inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid. [Written also stye.] called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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