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heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.

se other servants, collect the rents or income, keep accounts, and the like. Worthy to be stewards of rent and land. Chaucer. They came near to the steward of Joseph's house. Gen. xliii. 19. As good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 1 Pet. iv. 10.

A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.

In a manner, or with the care, of a steward. [R.] To be stewardly dispensed, not wastefully spent. Tooker.

The office of a steward. Shak.

An overseer or superintendent. [R.] "The stewartry of provisions." Tooke.

Suiting a stew, or brothel. Bp. Hall.

A pan used for stewing.

A pot used for stewing.

An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.

r vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon. Give an account of thy stewardship. Luke xvi. 2.

A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar. Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.…

A bailiff or steward; an agent. [Obs.] Jacobs.

f March he was attacked by fever. Macaulay. Hydrofluoric acid . . . attacks the glass. B. Stewart.

A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid. Knight.

A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution.

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

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.