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Sty   /staɪ/   Listen
noun
Sty  n.  (pl. sties)  (Written also stigh)  
1.
A pen or inclosure for swine.
2.
A place of bestial debauchery. "To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty."


Sty  n.  (Written also stye)  (Med.) An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.


verb
Sty  v. t.  (past & past part. stied; pres. part. stying)  To shut up in, or as in, a sty.


Sty  v. i.  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."





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... & I. Company now own and rent hovels, shacks and dug-outs that are unfit for the habitation of human beings and are little removed from the pig-sty make of dwellings. And the people in them live on the very level of a pig-sty. Frequently the population is so congested that whole families are crowded into one room; eight persons in one small room was ...
— The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition • Upton Sinclair
... the west wall till he came to the wall on the north, which was higher than the others. Here, against the north wall, was a sheltered cover like an immense sty, indescribably filthy and evil-smelling; about thirty rings were fastened to the wall, and from each ring depended a big rusty ...
— The Pools of Silence • H. de Vere Stacpoole
... misty sunshine of morning overhung by not less beautiful shades. We were quite glad to get to this sort of mountain scenery again, which we had so enjoyed at Grasmere, and leave smooth, bare, pyramidal Skiddaw and its "ancient" fellows behind. We at last ascended the steep zigzag which begins Sty Head Pass, confirming our resolution now and then by admiring the plodding industry of our mountain horses. It was indeed pleasant when the last gate was opened and we were safe within the wall of rough stones which headed the steep ascent, and we could ...
— A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, - of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England • Eliza Southall
... body be a healthy beast, And keep the soul a singing soaring bird; But lure thou not the soul from out the sky To pipe unto the body in the sty. ...
— English Poems • Richard Le Gallienne
... for the special brand of trouble they keep for paralytic idiots. I've known you all too long to expect sagacity, but the instinct of self-preservation characterizes even the lower animals. What swine, for instance, would leave its cosy sty——" ...
— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates


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