sty — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A pen or enclosure for swine.

   Synonyms

   pigpenpigsty

2. A messy, dirty or debauched place.

   Usage

   • Figurative

   Synonyms

   hovelpigsty

   Examples

   To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.

Verb

1. To place in, or as if in, a sty.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   and here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me The rest o' the island

2. To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.

   Usage

   • Transitive

Verb

1. To ascend, rise up, climb.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Related words

   stile

   Examples

   The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...].

   From this lower tract he dared to stie up to the clowdes.

   More examples (2)

   Led along, as some Creatures are, by the Noses, and voluntarily hood-winked; or like seeled Doves, sty up, you know not whither, nor how far.

   That she might sty to the seat of Beatifick Mirth.

Noun

1. A ladder.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • dialectal

Noun

1. An inflammation of the eyelid.

Noun

1. an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid

   Synonyms

   styehordeolumeye infection

   Broader terms

   infection

2. a pen for swine

   Synonyms

   pigstypigpen

   Broader terms

   pen