Sty

1. (n.) A pen or enclosure for swine.

2. (n.) A place of bestial debauchery.

3. (v. t.) To shut up in, or as in, a sty.

4. (v. i.) To soar; to ascend; to mount. See Stirrup.

5. (n.) An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.

Thesaurus Entries

Augean stables, Sodom, abscess, amaurosis, aposteme, bed sore, birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb, blemish, blepharitis, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, cataract, cesspit, cesspool, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, choroiditis, cicatrix, cold sore, comedo, conjunctivitis, crack, crater, craze, cross-eye, defacement, defect, defective vision, deformation, deformity, den, detached retina, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dump, eschar, esotropia, eye defect, fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, flaw, freckle, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, glaucoma, gumboil, gutta serena, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, hole, hovel, iritis, keloid, keratitis, kibe, kink, lentigo, lesion, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, optic neuritis, pandemonium, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, pesthole, petechia, pigpen, pigsty, piles, pimple, pink eye, pit, plague spot, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, retinoblastoma, rift, rising, rookery, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, slum, soft chancre, sore, split, stable, stigma, strawberry mark, suppuration, swelling, tenement, the slums, trachoma, track, tubercle, tumbledown shack, twist, ulcer, ulceration, uveitis, verruca, vesicle, wale, walleye, warp, warren, wart, weal, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, wound