Stew
[stjuː] or [stu,stju]
Definition
(noun.) food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables.
(verb.) cook slowly and for a long time in liquid; 'Stew the vegetables in wine'.
(verb.) bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings.
Editor: Marilyn--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
(n.) An artificial bed of oysters.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.
(v. t.) A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.
(v. t.) A brothel; -- usually in the plural.
(v. t.) A prostitute.
(v. t.) A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.
(v. t.) A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.
Checker: Wilbur
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Boil (slowly), seethe, simmer.
v. n. Be boiled (slowly).
n. [1]. Brothel, bagnio, bawdy house, whore-house, house of prostitution, house of ill fame.[2]. [Colloquial.] Confusion, difficulty, scrape, mess.[3]. Bouilli, stewed meat.
Inputed by Logan
Definition
n. an artificial oyster-bed: a vivarium.
v.t. to simmer or boil slowly with little moisture.—v.i. to be boiled slowly and gently: (slang) to be in a state of worry or agitation: to read hard for an examination.—n. meat stewed: mental agitation: worry: (slang) one who reads hard: a room for bathing purposes: (pl.) a brothel.—ns. Stew′-pan -pot a pan pot used for stewing.
Edited by Henry
Examples
- Nothing, man, the woman of Pablo said and filled his bowl with the meat stew. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Give him some more stew, Pilar said viciously to Maria. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Do you want stew? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The priest looked up from the stew and smiled at me. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Robert Jordan, wiping out the stew bowl with bread, explained how the income tax and inheritance tax worked. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We were eating meat stew now. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He was devoting himself to the stew. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I have also had a piece stewed, which you will be able to taste; this has of course passed the tropics. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- A well-known author gives an amusing incident of a dinner party, at which the host offered stewed tomato for apple sauce. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It's stewed up together, and taken hot, and it's a nice thing for the gout, I should think! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I have got a stewed steak,--which is of home preparation,--and a cold roast fowl,--which is from the cook's-shop. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But here have I been stewing and fuming in this jolly old crib till I have had the horrors falling on me as thick as hail. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What a road he has travelled; and sits now, about half-past seven of the clock, stewing in slipper-bath; sore afflicted; ill of Revolution Fever. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It appears to me to be a most important matter that soup meat, and meat for potting and stewing, should be sent to this country in the way I propose. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
Edited by Helen