To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.
Milton.
Sty, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stying (?).] To
shut up in, or as in, a sty. Shak.
Sty, v. i. [OE. stien, sti&?;en, AS. stgan to rise; akin to D. stijgen,
OS. & OHG. stgan, G. steigen, Icel. stga, Sw. stiga, Dan. stige, Goth.
steigan, L. vestigium footstep, Gr. &?; to walk, to go, Skr. stigh to
mount. Cf. Distich, Stair steps, Stirrup, Sty a boil, a pen for swine,
Vestige.] 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, n. [For older styan, styanye, understood as sty on eye, AS. stgend
(sc. eáge eye), properly, rising, or swelling (eye), p. p. of stgan to
rise. See Sty, v. i.] (Med.) An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge
of the eyelid. [Written also stye.]
Sty"an (?), n. See Sty, a boil. [R.] De quincey.
Sty"ca (?), n. [LL., fr. AS. stic, styc, stycge.] An anglo-Saxon copper
coin of the lowest value, being worth half a farthing. S. M. Leake.
Sty"cer*in (?), n. [Styryl + glycerin.] (Chem.) A triacid alcohol,
related to glycerin, and obtained from certain styryl derivatives as a
yellow, gummy, amorphous substance; -- called also phenyl glycerin.
Stye, n. See Sty, a boil.
Styg"i*al (?), a. Stygian. [R.] Skelton.
Styg"i*an (?), a. [L. Stygius, fr. Styx, Stygis, Gr. &?;, &?;, the
Styx.] Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal.
See Styx.
At that so sudden blaze, the Stygian throng Bent their aspect.
Milton.
Sty`la*gal*ma"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; a column + &?; an image.] (Arch.)
Performing the office of columns; as, Atlantes and Caryatides are
stylagalmaic figures or images. [Written also stylogalmaic.]
Sty"lar (?), a. See Stilar.
||Sty*las"ter (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?; pillar + &?; star.] (Zoöl.)
||Any one of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous
||hydroid corals of the genus Stylaster.
Style (?), n. [OE. stile, F. style, Of. also stile, L. stilus a style
or writing instrument, manner or writing, mode of expression; probably
for stiglus, meaning, a pricking instrument, and akin to E. stick. See
Stick, v. t., and cf. Stiletto. The spelling with y is due to a
supposed connection with Gr. &?; a pillar.] 1. An instrument used by
the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its
ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose
of making erasures by smoothing the wax.
2. Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.
Specifically: --
(a) A pen; an author's pen. Dryden.
(b) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
(c) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
(d) (Zoöl.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of
insects.
(e) [Perhaps fr. Gr. &?; a pillar.] The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the
shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.
(f) [Probably fr. Gr. &?; a pillar.] (Bot.) The elongated part of a
pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of
Pistil.
3. Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written;
especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as
exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of
words in discourse; rhetorical expression.
High style, as when that men to kinges write.
Chaucer.
Style is the dress of thoughts.
Chesterfield.
Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
Swift.
It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work.