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To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw.

A tribe of American Indians including many of the Pueblos of New Mexico and adjacent regions.

Fatigued; worn with labor or hardship. [Obs. or Local] Mir. for Mag.

A pipe, funnel, or chimney, as for smoke. Chaucer.

The lapwing; -- called also teewheep. [Prov. Eng.]

To beat; to break, as flax or hemp. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Same as Zedoary. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.

In the manner of a gate. Three circles of stones set up gatewise. Fuller.

See Lich wake, under Lich.

Somewhat late; backward. [Obs.] "Lateward lands." Holland.

A measuring rod. Ascham.

Worthy of observation or notice; remarkable.

See Cetewale. [Obs.]

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.

e 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.