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STEW, v.t.

1. To seethe or gently boil; to boil slowly in a moderate manner, or with a simmering heat; as, to stew meat; to stew applies; to stew prunes.

2. To boil in heat.

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

STEW, n.

1. A hot house; a bagnio.

The Lydians were inhibited by Cyrus to use any armor, and give themselves to baths and stews.

2. A brothel; a house of prostitution; but generally or always used int he plural, stews.

3. A prostitute. [Not in use.]

4. [See Stow.] A store pond; a small pond where fish are kept for the table. [Not used.]

5. Meat stewed; as a stew of pigeons.

6. Confusion, as when the air is full of dust. [Not in use or local.]
1913 Definition
Stew (stew)
n.(?)
Stew
[Cf. Stow.]
  1. A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
    [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. Evelyn.
  2. An artificial bed of oysters.
    [Local, U.S.]
  3. 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.

  4. To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.
  5. A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.
    [Obs.]

    As burning Ætna from his boiling stew
    Doth belch out flames.     Spenser.

    The Lydians were inhibited by Cyrus to use any armor, and give themselves to baths and stews. Abp. Abbot.

  6. A brothel; -- usually in the plural.
    Bacon. South.

    There be that hate harlots, and never were at the stews. Aschman.

  7. A prostitute.
    [Obs.] Sir A. Weldon.
  8. A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.
  9. A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.
    [Colloq.]
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