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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A pen or inclosure for swine.

2. A place of bestial debauchery. To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. Milton.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid. [Written also stye.]

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To shut up in, or as in, a sty. Shak.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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