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An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc. [Eng.]

or lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast.

A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny. To remove as far as he can the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. C. Kingsley.

Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate. Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things. Tillotson.

Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.

To stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan. A braising kettle has a deep cover which holds coals; consequently the cooking is done from above, as well as below. Mrs. Henderson.

modern times, to a particular department of it, distinguished by the title of casuistry. Stewart. Casuistry in the science of cases (i.e., oblique deflections from the general rule). De Quincey.

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

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

Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy. His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there's more conceit in him than is in a mallet. Shak.

tion 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.

Of some distinction; noteworthy; influential; respectable; -- said of persons. You are, indeed, a very considerable man. Junius.

inctively 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.