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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.

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

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

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

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

d 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 kind of steward or agent. [China] S. W. Williams

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.

An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.

court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone.

gs meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.

One who dispends or expends; a steward. [Obs.] Wyclif (1 Cor. iv. 1).

To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott.

A steward or bailiff of an estate. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward. A couple of friends, his chaplain and feeder. Goldsmith.

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.]