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

er; 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.

sculentus), 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.

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

s of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.

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

Separate or distinct by reason of superiority; distinguished; important; noteworthy; unusual; special; as, he brought no particular news; she was the particular belle of the party.

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

ent 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.

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

A grating of iron or of timbers pointed with iron, hung over the gateway of a fortress, to be let down to prevent the entrance of an enemy. "Let the portcullis fall." Sir W. Scott. She . . . the huge portcullis high updrew. Milton.

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

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

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

iving in pueblos. The principal Pueblo tribes are the Moqui, the Zuñi, the Keran, and the Tewan.

A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway. Massive pylons adorned with obelisks in front. J. W. Draper.

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

ong, 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 ded…