stied English
Verb
(head)
(sty)
Anagrams
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sty English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .
Noun
( sties)
A pen or enclosure for swine.
(figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
* Milton
- To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty .
Synonyms
* (enclosure for swine) pigpen, pigsty
* (messy or dirty place) hovel, pigsty
Verb
( en-verb)
To place in, or as if in, a sty.
- (Shakespeare)
To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), .
Alternative forms
* stee, stie, stigh
Verb
(label) To ascend, rise up, climb.
* 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Isaiah LIII:
- And he schal stie as a ?erde bifor him, and as a roote fro þirsti lond.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
- The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...].
Derived terms
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Noun
(sties)
A ladder.
Etymology 3
Probably a .
Alternative forms
* stye
Noun
(sties)
(label) An inflammation of the eyelid.
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stived English
Verb
(head)
(stive)
stive English
Noun
(obsolete) A stew.
The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
- (De Colange)
* 1867 , The British Farmer's Magazine , Volum LII, New Series, page 231 ,
- The removal of the heated air, steam, stive , and flour from the millstones, is a proposition which does not appear to be more than sufficiently well understood.
Derived terms
* stive-box, stive-room
Verb
( stiv)
To be stifled or suffocated.
To compress, to cram; to make close and hot; to render stifling.
* Sir H. Wotton
- His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other.
* 1796 , Amelia Simmons, , 1996 Bicentennial Facsimile Edition, page 64 ,
- Let your cucumbers be ?mall, fre?h gathered, and free from ?pots; then make a pickle of ?alt and water, ?trong enough to bear an egg; boil the pickle and ?kim it well, and then pour it upon your cucumbers, and ?tive them down for twenty four hours;.
* 1836 , T. S. Davis (editor), Kitchen Poetry'', ''Every Body's Album , Volume 1, page 172 ,
- And here I mist stay, / In this stived up kitchen to work all day.
* 1851 , , Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom , 1871, page 284 ,
- "Things are a good deal stived up," answered the Deacon.
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