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A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy.

A steward; an overseer. [A prince] is nothing but a servant, overseer, or graff, and not the head, which is a title belonging only to Christ. John Knox.

A farm steward. [Obs.]

rly 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 gatees.…

A ragout or stew of meat with beans and other vegetables.

more from the coast line. Wharton. -- High steam, steam having a high pressure. -- High steward, the chief steward. -- High tea, tea with meats and extra relishes. -- High tide, the greatest flow of the tide; high water. -- High time. (a) Quite time; full time for the occasion. (b) A time of great excitement or en…

A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge. A mixture or hotchpotch of many tastes. Bacon.

The science of ideas. Stewart.

rm new wholes of our creation. I shall employ the word imagination to express this power. Stewart.

reland. -- Irish reef, or Irishman's reef (Naut.), the head of a sail tied up. -- Irish stew, meat, potatoes, and onions, cut in small pieces and stewed.

essed, restrained, or controlled; as, irrepressible joy; an irrepressible conflict. W. H. Steward.

is true or false, probable or improbable, is called by logicians the faculty of judgment. Stewart.

To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.

Of or pertaining to jurisprudence. Stewart.

in a conical form during the occurrence of a tornado and heavy rainfall on land. -- Land steward, a person who acts for another in the management of land, collection of rents, etc. -- Land tortoise, Land turtle (Zoöl.), any tortoise that habitually lives on dry land, as the box tortoise. See Tortoise. -- Land warran…

In Ireland, a combination of tenant farmers and other, organized, with Charles Stewart Parnell as president, in 1879 with a view to the reduction of farm rents and a reconstruction of the land laws. -- Land"*lea`guer (#), n. -- Land"*lea`guism (#), n.

A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.

s the Ulva latissima; purlpe 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. Mountain laver (Bot.), a reddish gelatinous alga of the genus Palmella, found on the sides of mountains…

A combination of meat with vegetables, bread, etc., usually stewed, sometimes baked; an olio.

A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer.