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A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court. Chaucer.

hal of the king's household. [Eng.] Court of Marshalsea, a court formerly held before the steward and marshal of the king's house to administer justice between the king's domestic servants. Blackstone.

A stew, commonly of fish, flavored with wine, and served with a wine sauce containing onions, mushrooms, etc.

Liberty; permission; allowance. Thou mayst be no longer steward. Luke xvi. 2.

thers; stingy; niggard. Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. Bp. Hall.

ner; on occasion; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly. Stewart. The one, Wolsey, directly his subject by birth; the other, his subject occasionally by his preferment. Fuller.

esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo. [Written also ocra and ochra.]

A dish of stewed meat of different kinds. [Obs.] Besides a good olio, the dishes were trifling. Evelyn.

A dish of stewed meat; an olio; an olla-podrida.

favorite Spanish dish, consisting of a mixture of several kinds of meat chopped fine, and stewed with vegetables.

One of the adherents of Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91) in his advocacy of home rule for Ireland.

or memory. In the phenomena of the material world, and in many of the phenomena of mind. Stewart.

ient court of record in England, formerly incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owned or had the toll was the judge. Blackstone.

operties; pertaining to pneumatics; as, pneumatic experiments. "Pneumatical discoveries." Stewart.

being practicable; practicableness; feasibility. "The practicability of such a project." Stewart.

s whose direct and ultimate object is the communication either of enjoyment or suffering. Stewart.

The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house. Cowell.

A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned; as, a ragout of mutton.

rong, and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends. Stewart. Reason is used sometimes to express the whole of those powers which elevate man above the brutes, and constitute his rational nature, more especially, perhaps, his intellectual powers; sometimes to express the power of de…

an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc. Chaucer. Piers Plowman.