Now dial. Forms: 1 stíʓend, 6 staying, 7 stian, 9 styan, stine, etc. (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). [OE. stíʓend (lit. ‘riser’), agent-n. (related to stíʓende pres. pple.) f. stíʓan STY v.1] = STY sb.4

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 114/10. Ordeolus stiʓend.

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1597.  Lowe, Chirurg. (1634), 163. Hordelium … In vulgar language, the Staying.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, XXVIII. xi. II. 324. A soveraigne liniment for the Stian or any other hard swelling in the eyelids.

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1736.  Ainsworth, Lat. Dict., Hordeolus,… a little swelling in the eye-lids, like a barley corn; a stian, or stithe.

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1834.  De Quincey, Autob. Sk., Wks. 1853, I. 70. I knew that a styan (as it is called) upon the eyelid could be easily reduced … by the slight application of any golden trinket.

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