styan Now dial.
(ˈstaɪən)
Forms: 1 st{iacu}ᵹend, 6 staying, 7 stian, 9 styan, stine, etc. (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).
[OE. st{iacu}ᵹend (lit. ‘riser’), agent-n. (related to st{iacu}ᵹende pres. pple.) f. st{iacu}ᵹan sty v.1]
= sty n.4
| c 1000 ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 114/10 Ordeolus stiᵹend. 1597 Lowe Chirurg. (1634) 163 Hordelium..In vulgar language, the Staying. 1601 Holland Pliny xxviii. xi. II. 324 A soveraigne liniment for the Stian or any other hard swelling in the eyelids. 1736 Ainsworth Lat. Dict., Hordeolus,..a little swelling in the eye-lids, like a barley corn; a stian, or stithe. 1834 De Quincey Autob. Sk. Wks. 1853 I. 70, I knew that a styan (as it is called) upon the eyelid could be easily reduced..by the slight application of any golden trinket. |