the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A pen or inclosure for swine.
n. A place of bestial debauchery.
v. To shut up in, or as in, a sty.
verb-intransitive. To soar; to ascend; to mount. See stirrup.
n. An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To go upward; mount; ascend; soar.
To mount (upon a horse).
To aspire.
n. An ascent; an ascending lane or path; any narrow pathway or course.
n. A step upward; a stair.
n. A ladder.
n. A pen or inclosure for swine; a pigsty.
n. Hence A filthy hovel or place: any place of mean living or bestial debauchery.
To occupy a sty or hovel; live in a sty.
To lodge in a sty or hovel; pen up.
n. A circumscribed inflammatory swelling of the edge of the eyelid, like a small boil; hordeolurn. Also spelled stye.
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n. an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
n. a pen for swine
Word Usage
"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."