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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



... began with oyster-mushroom stew, then they had roast chicken, baked wild-potatoes, stewed bracken that tasted exactly like young spinach, dandelion salad, and scout ...
— Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... to a supper of plum-stew and bread. Bottles had washed the blood from his face and now resembled ...
— The O'Ruddy - A Romance • Stephen Crane
... time of year when us had a big meetin' or at Christmus time. Den effen one of us wanted ter git mai'ed, he would perform de weddin' atter de meetin' or atter Chris'mus celebratin'. I had er bluish worsted dress. I mai'ed in Jannywerry, right atter Chris'mus. At my mai'ge us had barbecue, brunswick stew, an' cake. De whole ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Georgia Narratives, Part 3 • Works Projects Administration
... to come to the petite one on Thursday, for sake of a suggestion of pigeons' wings." Assuredly none would have voted any exquisite thing out of place, from a dish of lampreys, that favorite viand of kings, to the common delicacy of Rome, a stew of nightingales' tongues. And so compact were all the arrangements, that a brilliant friend was fain to declare that the hostess should ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 • Various
... its walls bearded like a pard's face with tufted laurel and splotched like a brandy drunkard's with red stains; a church that is a dismal ruin without and a glittering Aladdin's Cave of gold and gems and porphyry and onyx within; a wide and handsome avenue starting from one festering stew of slums and ending in another festering stew of slums; a grimed and broken archway opening on a lovely hidden courtyard where trees are green and flowers bloom, and in the center there stands a statue which is worth its weight ...
— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb


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