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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..

Stewardly :: Stewardess (n.) A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers..

Stewish :: Stewartry (n.) In Scotland, the jurisdiction of a steward; also, the lands under such jurisdiction..

Steward :: Steward (n.) In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands..

Factor :: Factor (n.) A steward or bailiff of an estate.

Manciple :: Manciple (n.) A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court..

Stewartry :: Stewartry (n.) The office of a steward; stewardship.

Provisor :: Provisor (n.) The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house..

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..

Comprador :: Comprador (n.) A kind of steward or agent.

Cellarer :: Cellarer (n.) A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.

Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery..

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..

Steward :: Steward (n.) A person employed in a hotel, or a club, or on board a ship, to provide for the table, superintend the culinary affairs, etc. In naval vessels, the captain's steward, wardroom steward, steerage steward, warrant officers steward, etc., are petty officers who provide for the messes under their charge..

Feeder :: Feeder (n.) One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward..

Stewartry :: Stewardship (n.) The office of a steward.

Dispense :: Dispense (v. t.) To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines..

Steward :: Steward (n.) A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep accounts, and the like..

Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc..

Stewardess :: Steward (v. t.) To manage as a steward.

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