Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as sty.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare See sty, a boil.

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Examples

  • _styan_ (as it is called) upon the eyelid could be easily reduced, though not instantaneously, by the slight application of any golden trinket.

    Autobiographical Sketches Thomas De Quincey 1822

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