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Definition of Styes
1. stye [n] - See also: stye
Lexicographical Neighbors of Styes
Literary usage of Styes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations with Illustrative Notes on Words by Alexander Carmichael, James Carmichael Watson, Angus Matheson (1900)
"WHY came the one stye, [Why comes Without the two styes here ? Why came the two
styes, Without the three styes here ? Why came the three styes, ..."
2. A Treatise Upon Some of the General Principles of the Law: Whether of a by William Wait (1878)
"Hog styes and cattle yards. Inclosures in a city or town, or near highways or
... A distillery with styes in which largo quantities of hogs are kept, ..."
3. A Hand-book on the Diseases of Children and Their Homeopathic Treatment by Charles Edmund Fisher (1895)
"Hordeolum, or styes, are minute boils or abscesses that form ... In individual
cases there may be a dozen or more styes extending over a period of weeks or ..."
4. Modern Surgical Therapeutics: A Compendium of Current Formulæ, Approved by George Henry Napheys (1878)
"For the early dispersion of styes, this surgeon recommends that as soon as ...
Whatever local treatment is used, it is essential that if the styes have a ..."
5. Safeguarding the Special Senses: General Advice Regarding the Use and by Henry Ottridge Reik (1912)
"styes. styes are localized abscesses of the lid margin. ... Removal of the cause
prevents a succession of styes, and opening the existing one, ..."
6. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
"I think my pigs will be best tor me, So I'm off to the styes afresh. The Prodigal
Son. ONCE more the lazy, string-tied, shuffling procession got under way, ..."
7. The Modern Practice of Physic: Exhibiting the Characters, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Thomas (1813)
"... rise on the eyelids ; various acrid fumes acting tn chemical stimuli, bleak
winds and cold ; little inflammatory tumours called styes, which Mons. ..."
8. A Treatise on Surgery by Timothy Holmes (1875)
"The little marginal boils which are called styes do not differ in any styes,
essential respect from boils in other parts of the body, and, like thorn, ..."
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