Definition of stew

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Stew (n.) A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.

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Laver :: Laver (n.) The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan..
Steward :: Stew (v. t.) A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew..
Stew :: Stew (v. t.) A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.
Stey :: Stewpot (n.) A pot used for stewing.
Stewartry :: Stewartry (n.) The office of a steward; stewardship.
Stewing :: Stewed (imp. & p. p.) of Ste.
Approver :: Approver (v. t.) A bailiff or steward; an agent.
Steward :: Steward (n.) A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church..
Stewartry :: Stewartry (n.) An overseer or superintendent.
Saucepan :: Saucepan (n.) A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan..
Stewardship :: Stewardly (adv.) In a manner, or with the care, of a steward..
Olla-podrida :: Olla-podrida (n.) A favorite Spanish dish, consisting of a mixture of several kinds of meat chopped fine, and stewed with vegetables..
Court-baron :: Court-baron (n.) An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse..
Stewed :: Stew (n.) An artificial bed of oysters.
Copyhold :: Copyhold (n.) A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court..
Court-leet :: Court-leet (n.) A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet..
Steward :: Steward (n.) In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands..
Cellarer :: Cellarer (n.) A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.
Landreeve :: Landreeve (n.) A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward..
Greencloth :: Greencloth (n.) A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates..
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