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Stew   /stu/   Listen
noun
Stew  n.  
1.
A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
2.
An artificial bed of oysters. (Local, U.S.)


Stew  n.  
1.
A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse. (Obs.) "As burning Aetna from his boiling stew Doth belch out flames." "The Lydians were inhibited by Cyrus to use any armor, and give themselves to baths and stews."
2.
A brothel; usually in the plural. "There be that hate harlots, and never were at the stews."
3.
A prostitute. (Obs.)
4.
A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.
5.
A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew. (Colloq.)


verb
Stew  v. t.  (past & past part. stewed; pres. part. stewing)  To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate 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.


Stew  v. i.  To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.





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"Stew" Quotes from Famous Books



... tempting haunch of venison on the spit, throws over the inviter, and ingratiates himself with his neighbour, who ends by asking him to stay to dinner. The fare, however, consisted of nothing more luxurious than an Irish stew, and the disappointed guest was informed that he had been 'too cunning by half,' inasmuch as the venison belonged to his original inviter, and had been cooked in the house he was in by kind permission, because the chimney of the ...
— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 2 • Grace & Philip Wharton
... one called. "You're late. I set the stew back to keep it hot. Glory be, and who is it you're bringing home ...
— Sunny Boy in the Big City • Ramy Allison White
... I stew, and then I'll bake, To-morrow I shall the Queen's child take; Ah! how famous it is that nobody knows That my ...
— Grimm's Fairy Stories • Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
... proximity to a large hotel kitchen in England, with fifty Britons only separated from me by paper partitions. I had not been long in bed on Saturday night when I was awoke by Ito bringing in an old hen which he said he could stew till it was tender, and I fell asleep again with its dying squeak in my ears, to be awoke a second time by two policemen wanting for some occult reason to see my passport, and a third time by two men with lanterns scrambling and fumbling about the room for the strings of ...
— Unbeaten Tracks in Japan • Isabella L. Bird
... altering the position of the table and placing it between the settler and himself; "a good many lopped off, as you say, and in a devil of a stew, but not exactly eaten. However be so good as to return this to the chimney, and when I've eaten something from my bag I'll listen to what you have to say ...
— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson


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