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A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.

d in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.

A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.

An apple fit to stew or coddle.

A kind of steward or agent. [China] S. W. Williams

otion of our past sensations, or of the objects of sense that we have formerly perceived. Stewart.

has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects. Stewart.

One who maintains the theory of conceptualism. Stewart.

tinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation. Stewart.

roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court. Blackstone.

An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.

court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone.

A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry. Curry powder (Cookery), a condiment used for making curry, formed of various materials, including strong spices, as pepper, ginger, garlic, coriander seed, etc.

gs meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.

r intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate. To disentangle truth from error. Stewart. To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth. Clarendon. A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures. Bp. Stillingfleet.

One who dispends or expends; a steward. [Obs.] Wyclif (1 Cor. iv. 1).

To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott.

and hazardous movements; a balancer. When the equilibrist balances a rod upon his finger. Stewart.

A steward or bailiff of an estate. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward. A couple of friends, his chaplain and feeder. Goldsmith.