stew

• WordNet 3.6
  • v stew cook slowly and for a long time in liquid "Stew the vegetables in wine"
  • v stew bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings
  • v stew be in a huff; be silent or sullen
  • n stew food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables
  • n stew agitation resulting from active worry "don't get in a stew","he's in a sweat about exams"
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• Interesting fact: To bulk up, rikishi eat huge portions of protein-rich stews called chankonabe, packed with fish or meat and vegetables, plus vast quantities of less healthful foods, including fast food. They often force themselves to eat when they are full, and they have a nap after lunch, thus acquiring flab on top of their strong muscles, which helps to keep their center of gravity low.
• • Stew A brothel; -- usually in the plural. "There be that hate harlots, and never were at the stews ."
  • Stew A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.
  • Stew A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse. "As burning Ætna 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 ."
  • Stew A prostitute.
  • Stew A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
  • Stew A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew .
  • Stew An artificial bed of oysters.
  • v. i Stew To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.
  • v. t Stew 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.
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• • n stew A heated room, especially such a room for bathing purposes; a hothouse; a stove.
  • n stew Specifically, a hatters' drying-room.
  • n stew A room; a chamber; a closet.
  • n stew A brothel; a bagnio: often used in the plural, sometimes with the force of a singular noun.
  • n stew A lock hospital. See hospital.
  • n stew A prostitute: sometimes in the plural form with a singular meaning.
  • n stew A close vessel in which something is cooked or stewed; a stew-pot or stew-pan.
  • n stew Food cooked by stewing; especially, meat or fish prepared by slow cooking in a liquid.
  • n stew A state of agitation or ferment; mental disturbance; worry; fuss.
  • stew To bathe, as in a liquid or a vapor-bath.
  • stew Figuratively, to steep.
  • stew To cook (food) by simmering or slowly boiling; prepare by cooking in a liquid kept at the simmering-point: as, to stew meat or fruit; to stew oysters.
  • stew To be cooked by slowly simmering.
  • n stew A pond, usually artificial, used for domestic purposes; especially, a pool or tank in which fish are kept until needed for the table; a vivarium; a stew-pond.
  • n stew A breeding-place for tame pheasants.
  • n stew An artificial bed of oysters: used of the old Roman and also of the modern methods of fattening.
  • n stew Dust; a cloud of dust, smoke, or vapor.
  • stew A Middle English variant of stow.
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• • v.t Stew stū to simmer or boil slowly with little moisture
  • v.i Stew to be boiled slowly and gently:
  • n Stew meat stewed: mental agitation: worry: :
  • n Stew stū an artificial oyster-bed: a vivarium.
  • v.i Stew (slang) to be in a state of worry or agitation: to read hard for an examination
  • n Stew (slang) one who reads hard: a room for bathing purposes
  • n Stew (pl.) a brothel
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• John Barrymore

  

  “I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.”
• Edward Abbey

  

  “Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.”

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