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Sty is a related term of cote.


As an adjective sty

is hundredth.

As a proper noun cote is

.

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
    * *

    Noun

    (sties)
  • A ladder.

    • Etymology 3

    Probably a .

    Alternative forms

    * stye

    Noun

    (sties)
  • (label) An inflammation of the eyelid.

    • cote

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the (etyl) cote, the feminine form of . Cognate to Dutch kot.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cottage or hut.
  • A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
  • * Milton
    • Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes .
    Related terms
    * dovecote * sheepcote
    Synonyms
    * shed

    Etymology 2

    See quote.

    Verb

    (cot)
  • (obsolete) To quote.
    • (Udall)

    Etymology 3

    Probably related to (etyl) .

    Verb

    (cot)
  • To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
    • A dog cotes a hare.
    (Drayton)
  • * Shakespeare
    • We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.
  • * 1825 , , The Talisman , A. and C. Black (1868), 37:
    • [...]strength to pull down a bull——swiftness to cote an antelope.
    (Webster 1913)

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