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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



... we go; but why are there not more of us? The smallest favors should be thankfully received, but she hears that Havana is full of strangers, and she wonders, for her part, why people will stay in that hot place, and roast, and stew, and have the yellow fever, when she could make them so comfortable in San Antonio. This want of custom she continues, during our whole visit, to complain of. Would it be uncharitable for us to aver that we found other wants in her establishment which caused ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various

... served, the stew poured into wooden bowls; no spoons or forks were provided. The fingers and the lips had to do their work unaided, in that day, at least in the huts of the peasantry. Bread, or rather baked corn cakes, were produced; herbs floated in the soup for flavouring; ...
— The House of Walderne - A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars • A. D. Crake

... and I really don't want any tea. I've gone slack on purpose because that's how I want to be till nine o'clock. I've just eaten an enormous oyster stew with Rush. That's what ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster

... cooked as follows: After removing the rind, cut the flesh into pieces of convenient size, and stew until soft and pulpy. Lemon-juice, sugar, and spices should then be added; after which, proceed in the usual manner of making pies from the apple or any other fruit. If kept from freezing, or from dampness and extreme cold, the Pie-melon may be ...
— The Field and Garden Vegetables of America • Fearing Burr

... expence, with a few bricks, or stones, and a little mortar, by the most ordinary bricklayer. And with regard to the expence of fuel for cooking, so simple a contrivance as an earthen pot, broad at top, for receiving a stew-pan, or kettle, and narrow at bottom, with holes through its sides near the bottom, for letting in air under a small circular iron grate, and other small holes near the top for letting out the smoke, may be introduced with great advantage. By making ...
— ESSAYS, Political, Economical and Philosophical. Volume 1. • Benjamin Rumford


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