styl (sti)

i. [ Tak thanne this drawht, and whan thou art wel refreshed questyouns. and refect, thow shal be moore stydefast to stye into heyere Chaucer, Boethius, iv. prose 6. That was Ambition, rash desire to sty, And every linck thereof a step of dignity. Spenser, F. Q., II. vii. 46. 2. To mount (upon a horse). Stiden vpon stithe horse stird to the Cité, And went on 3. To aspire. 6011 sty2 (sti), v.; pret. and pp. stied, ppr. stying. [ What miry wallowers the generality of men of our cla are in themselves, and constantly trough and sty with! Richardson, Clari a Harlowe, V. cxx. II. trans. To lodge in a sty or hovel; pen up. Here you sty me In this hard rock. Shak ., Tempest, i. 2. 343. sty3 (sti), n.; pl. sties (stiz). [In three distinct forms: ( a ) Sty, also stye, and formerly stie, a reduction of the earlier styen, sty an (see (b)), or directly parallel with MD. stiighe, LG. stige, stieg, Norw. stigje, stig, sti, a sty (cf. stigköyna, a sty, There is a sty grown o'er the eye o' th' Bull, Which will go near to blind the constellation. Fletcher (and another ), Elder Brother, ii. 4.