stye-The scientific name for a stye is a hordeolum. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]
= -- A stye is a boil on the eyelid; it begins at the root of a hair as a hard swelling which may extend to the whole lid. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
I thought that was called a stye?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Rice Calls Brutal Oil-Rich Dictator a ‘Good Friend’] Reference
Your home is nigh at hand, and in the warm pig-stye. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
I have a stye in my eye and I think I'm going to die. From Wordnik.com. [partygirl Diary Entry] Reference
And grey peas have fatten'd all the grunters in the stye. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 331] Reference
Nt my stye, and I admit that I am surprised that it IS your style. From Wordnik.com. [I pursue taboo love, reasons to wear corsets and girls with knives] Reference
'She's washing Bobby; he tumbled right into the pig-stye, and came out. From Wordnik.com. [Odd] Reference
I say neither buff nor stye to it — But ye dinna ken what it is to look a. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
Seriously, I somehow got this stye in my eye and it's totally freaking me out. From Wordnik.com. [partygirl Diary Entry] Reference
Within the fence were twelve styes, and in each stye were fifty sows with their young. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Odyssey] Reference
"Viet will feature Hanoi-stye Pho more subtle than Saigon-style Pho and less toppings". From Wordnik.com. [Viet Soy Cafe, Silver Lake - Hot Soy on the Platter] Reference
The stye, it was alleged, would die from that hour, and disappear in twenty-four hours. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
He conducted us through the numerous buildings, from the boiling-house to the pig-stye. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
We locked eyes for a moment and I was relieved when he looked away that a stye hadn't formed. From Wordnik.com. [between silk and cyanide]
Clan Diarmaid must have got it first by raiding in some Appin stye, as Petullo my doer down-by says. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
It was about a small pig who lived with his mother in a stye which possessed but a limited front yard. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Two families were already established in the place of one, and the house was already like unto a stye. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Up the beach was his hut -- I have seen many a stye a king to it -- and in the doorway his -- wife must I call her?. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
If the stye persists in progressing, bathing it in hot water will cause it to discharge pus and terminate much sooner. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
Thirdly …. my poor lil No. 3 had a stye in his eye. From Wordnik.com. [mott's mutterings] Reference
That cursed reek of yours would kill a hog of the stye. From Wordnik.com. [The Dew of Their Youth] Reference
Using a compress will likely help with your eye stye problem. From Wordnik.com. [eHow - Health How To's] Reference
Holland, from a Pig-stye to a Palace, without finding Paintings. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...] Reference
His stye of "mopping" is gonna run us all through the danged "wringer!". From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, unless the beholder has an oozing stye. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
Watery eyes, itching, tenderness, and redness are all common symptoms of a stye. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]
It can seem very annoying, but with proper treatment a stye can be healed quickly. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]
Constable Moriarty and Mary Ellen were sitting side by side on the wall of the pig-stye. From Wordnik.com. [General John Regan] Reference
She reached the pig-stye, lifted the bucket, and tipped the contents into a wooden trough. From Wordnik.com. [General John Regan] Reference
True to Belize stye, the people of this neighborhood were very friendly and greeted us warmly. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
A warm compress also acts as a helpful way of relieving the discomfort that accompanies any stye. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]
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