English-Thai Dictionary

sty

N คอก หมู  เล้า หมู  den hovel pigpen kok-mu

 

sty

VT ใส่ เล้า หมู  ใส่ หมู ใน คอก  sai-lao-mu

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STY

n. 1. A pen or inclosure for swine.
2. A place of bestial debauchery.
To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.
3. An inflamed tumor on the edge of the eyelid.

 

STY

v.t.To shut up in a sty.

 

STY

v.i.To soar; to ascend. [Not in use. ] [See Stirrup. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

STY

Sty, n.; pl. Sties (. [Written also stigh.] Etym: [AS. stigu, fr. stigan to rise; originally, probably, a place into which animals climbed or went up. *164. See Sty, v. i., and cf. Steward. ]

 

1. A pen or inclosure for swine.

 

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

 

STY

Sty, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stied; p. pr. & vb. n. Stying.]

 

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

 

STY

Sty, v. i. Etym: [OE. stien, sti, AS. stigan to rise; akin to D.stijgen, OS. & OHG. stigan, G. steigen, Icel. stiga, Sw. stiga, Dan. stige, Goth. steigan, L. vestigium footstep, Gr. stigh to mount. Cf. Distich, Stair steps, Stirrup, Sty a boil, a pen for swine, Vestige. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

STY

Sty, n. Etym: [For older styan, styanye, understood as sty on eye, AS. stigend (sc. eáge eye ), properly, rising, or swelling (eye ), p.p. of stigan to rise. See Sty, v. i.] (Med. )

 

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

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sty

sty 1 |stī staɪ | ▶noun a pigpen. ▶verb ( sties, stying, stied ) [ with obj. ] archaic keep (a pig ) in a sty: the most beggarly place that ever pigs were stied in. ORIGIN Old English stī - (in stīfearh ‘sty pig ’), probably identical with stig ‘hall ’ (see steward ), of Germanic origin.

 

sty

sty 2 |staɪ stī |(also stye ) ▶noun ( pl. sties |stīz | or styes ) an inflamed swelling on the edge of an eyelid, caused by bacterial infection of the gland at the base of an eyelash. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from dialect styany, from styan (from Old English stīgend ‘riser ’) + eye .

 

Oxford Dictionary

sty

sty 1 |stʌɪ | ▶noun ( pl. sties ) a pigsty. ▶verb ( sties, stying, stied ) [ with obj. ] archaic keep (a pig ) in a sty: the most beggarly place that ever pigs were stied in. ORIGIN Old English stī - (in stīfearh ‘sty pig ’), probably identical with stig ‘hall ’ (see steward ), of Germanic origin.

 

sty

sty 2 |stʌɪ |(also stye ) ▶noun ( pl. sties or styes ) an inflamed swelling on the edge of an eyelid, caused by bacterial infection of the gland at the base of an eyelash. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from dialect styany, from styan (from Old English stīgend ‘riser ’) + eye .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

sty

sty 1 /staɪ /名詞 複 sties C 1 豚小屋 (pigsty, ｟米 ｠pigpen ).2 汚ならしい家 [場所 ].動詞 自動詞 他動詞 (…が [を ])豚小屋に住む [住まわせる ].

 

sty

sty 2 stye 名詞 複 sties, styes C 〘医 〙麦粒腫 （しゆ ）, ものもらい .