Now dial. Forms: 5 styanie, 6 styonie, styony, 8–9 stiony, 9 styney, stine-eye, sty-on-eye, etc. (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). [f. STYAN + EYE sb.; the etymological sense is therefore an eye with a ‘styan’ on it.] = STY sb.4
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 475/1. Styanye yn the eye, egilopa.
1552. Huloet, Styony, disease growyng within the eye lyddes, sycosis.
1570. Levins, Manip., 102/24. Ye styonie, sycosis.
1572. Huloet (ed. Higins), Styony.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Stiony,… a Disease in the Eye-lids.
1823. Styney [see STY sb.4].
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Stiony, a small itching and inflamed pimple among the eye-lashes.
1881. Leicestersh. Gloss., Sty-on-eye.
