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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



... been specially put up for him in highly concentrated form by London chemists. One little pill-box of powder is potent enough to make a dozen quart-bottles of effective medicine. And now all these precious powders have melted together, and appear like Dicken's stew at the Inn of the Jolly Sand-boys "all in one delicious gravy." The Doctor is dazed, and offers to white and brown alike a tin box with "Have a pastile, do." He wanders among the half-breeds, offering plasters for weak backs, which they accept with ...
— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron
... 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
... ever do for you?" the voice went on, "or his slack-twisted son for that matter? Let them stew in their own juice. Give me your word, and you'll ...
— The Deaves Affair • Hulbert Footner
... to the Gowdy farm the largest in the county. He came striding over to us as if whatever he said was the end of the law. With him and Henderson L. and N.V. Creede pitching into a leatherhead like me, no wonder I did not recognize Virginia in her new dress; I was in such a stew that I hardly knew which end my head ...
— Vandemark's Folly • Herbert Quick
... cities, accustomed to stated hours of business and recreation, and whose minds were accustomed to some exercise and excitement, naturally drooped in the monotony of a camp knee in mire, where the only change from the camp-fire—with stew-pan simmering on it and long yarns spinning around it—was heavy sleep in a damp hut, or close tent, wrapped in a musty blanket and lulled by the snoring of ...
— Four Years in Rebel Capitals - An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death • T. C. DeLeon


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