Sty

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An enclosure for swine.
  • n. A filthy place.
  • v. To shut up in or live in a sty.
  • n. Inflammation of one or more sebaceous glands of an eyelid.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A pen or enclosure for swine.
  • n. A messy or dirty place.
  • v. To place in a sty.
  • v. To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.
  • n. A ladder.
  • n. An inflammation of the eyelid.
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
  • n. a pen for swine
  • Verb Form
    stied    sties    stying   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    infection    pen   
    Variant
    stied    stirrup    stye   
    Form
    stied    stying   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    soar    ascend    pigsty    pen    pig pen    hovel   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ai    Alai    Ally    Bi    Bligh    Bly    Brunei    Cai    Cy    Dai   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    spt1    stye    pallette    kola    j'aurai    krout    bedfellow    ballpoint