Defn: Apt to stutter; hesitating; stammering.
— Stut"ter*ing*ly, adv.
STY Sty, n.; pl. Sties (. [Written also stigh.] Etym: [AS. stigu, fr. stigan to rise; originally, probably, a place into which animals climbed or went up. *164. See Sty, v. i., and cf. Steward.]
1. A pen or inclosure for swine.
2. A place of bestial debauchery. To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. Milton.
STY
Sty, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stied; p. pr. & vb. n. Stying.]
Defn: To shut up in, or as in, a sty. Shak.
STY Sty, v. i. Etym: [OE. stien, sti, AS. stigan to rise; akin to D. stijgen, OS. & OHG. stigan, G. steigen, Icel. stiga, Sw. stiga, Dan. stige, Goth. steigan, L. vestigium footstep, Gr. stigh to mount. Cf. Distich, Stair steps, Stirrup, Sty a boil, a pen for swine, Vestige.]
Defn: 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
Sty, n. Etym: [For older styan, styanye, understood as sty on eye,
AS. stigend (sc. eáge eye), properly, rising, or swelling (eye), p.p.
of stigan to rise. See Sty, v. i.] (Med.)
Defn: An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.
[Written also stye.]