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  • 11sty|lo|po|di|um — «STY luh POH dee uhm», noun, plural di|a « dee uh». Botany. one of the double, fleshy disks surmounting the ovary and supporting the styles in plants of the parsley family. ╂[< New Latin stylopodium < stylus (< Greek stŷlos pillar) +… …

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  • 12sty|lo — «STY loh», noun, plural los. = stylograph. (Cf. ↑stylograph) …

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  • 13sty|my — «STY mee», noun, plural mies, verb, mied, my|ing. = stymie. (Cf. ↑stymie) …

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  • 14sty — [staı] n plural sties [Sense: 1; Origin: Old English stig] [Sense: 2; Origin: Old English stigend, from stigan to rise ] 1.) a place where pigs are kept = ↑pigsty 2.) …

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  • 15-sty — sty·lic; …

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  • 16sty — sty1 /stuy/, n., pl. sties, v., stied, stying. n. 1. a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen. 2. any filthy place or abode. 3. a place of bestial debauchery. v.t. 4. to keep or lodge in or as if in a sty. v.i. 5. to live in or as i …

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  • 17STY — Société des transports yonnais Logo de la STY (Kéolis La Roche sur Yon) Création Septembre 1976 pour le réseau 24 septembre 1991 pour la société actuelle Dates clés …

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  • 18sty — I [[t]staɪ[/t]] n. pl. sties, 1) an enclosure for swine; pigpen 2) a filthy place or abode 3) to keep or lodge in or as if in a sty 4) to live in or as if in a sty • Etymology: bef. 1000; OE stī in stī fearh sty pig, prob. identical with stig in… …

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  • 19sty — {{11}}sty (1) pen for pigs, O.E. sti, stig hall, pen (in sti fearh), from P.Gmc. *stijan (Cf. O.N. stia sty, kennel, O.H.G. stiga pen for small cattle ). {{12}}sty (2) inflamed swelling in the eyelid, 1610s, probably a back formation from M.E.… …

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  • 20sty — I. noun (plural sties; also styes) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English stig pen; pigpen; akin to Old Norse svīnsti pigpen Date: before 12th century pigpen II. verb (stied or styed; stying) …

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