(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
(2) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
(3) Four University of the Free State students filmed themselves drinking in a bar and then one of them urinating into a stew before feeding it to five black staff members, four of them women, at their dormitory on the Bloemfontein campus accompanied by shouts of "take it, take it".
(4) We have included pig’s trotters in our recipe to give the stew a gelatinous richness, and you can also throw in some ears for the same effect.
(5) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
(6) By any measure Poland’s recent history is one of triumph It was a war that was as much personal as it was political, with enmities that had been stewing for a decade erupting as the lid of communist rule was lifted.
(7) But rather than stew in bitterness, Hodgson's departure seems to have focused the band in much the same way as getting dropped in their early days (in their incarnation as Parva) did.
(8) But it was sociable, too – Roberto organised a barbecue (with steaks from his cattle-farmer friend) and a fish supper (with octopus stew from his fisherman friend).
(9) Readers may recall the Burl Ives record about a poor, cold, tired hobo who sings about the fantastical land with "the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees, where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings …" Yup, that's where we're living now, although the chancellor might have ruled out "the lake of stew and of whiskey too", since whisky is up 36p a bottle, while stew tax remains unchanged.
(10) However often its members drop elderly patients or leave them to stew in their own pee, the RCN gracefully embraces the public's image of them as the National Union of Angels.
(11) GCSE results are a thin gruel to feed developing minds when what is needed is a rich stew Jeremy Cushing We won’t see real progress until politicians treat education more like medicine, supporting a coherent programme of gradual research-based improvements, creatively designed and carefully developed until they work well.
(12) The muscle and fatty tissue of 101 deep-frozen fattened stewing chickens was tested for Hg content.
(13) ID7720613 Restaurante da Praia, Praia da Arrifana, Algarve Stewed octopus with sweet potato is the speciality at this restaurant, which sits alone at the bottom of the steep access road that winds down to one of Portugal’s most beautiful and geologically interesting beaches.
(14) Gastric emptying and small bowel transit were measured by computer analysis of data from a scintillation camera using technetium Tc 99m-tagged chicken liver mixed with beef stew and were compared with the results in five control subjects.
(15) When they drive you from the detention centre to the courthouse, this is what happens: reveille even before the communal breakfast, stewing in your own sweat while hunched over in the "beaker" [a minuscule isolation cell for special prisoners inside the prisoner transport lorry], transport through the Moscow traffic jams – a minimum of two hours.
(16) The study provides data which suggest that the consumption of red meat, savoury meals (pizza, pies, stew, etc.)
(17) It was found that boiling in water and frying decreased twofold the ammonia content in meat, while stewing produced no effect.
(18) Over my week in the Netherlands, I’d tried other delicacies: locust tabbouleh; chicken crumbed in buffalo worms; bee larvae ceviche; tempura-fried crickets; rose beetle larvae stew; soy grasshoppers; chargrilled sticky rice with wasp paste; buffalo worm, avocado and tomato salad; a cucumber, basil and locust drink; and a fermented, Asian-style dipping sauce made from grasshoppers and mealworms.
(19) There must be something to marry with the richness of the stew, and nothing beats the fluffy inside of a camp-baked potato.
(20) GB Burlotto Barolo Monvigliero, Piedmont, Italy 2008 (£28, The Wine Society ) This has the classic barolo paradox of power (14.5% alcohol) and ethereal fragrance (rose floral and subtle earthiness), but there's a ripeness and generosity of fruit here that you don't always find in nebbiolo at this age: a treat for wild mushroom risotto or pulse-based stews.
Stewardess
Definition:
(n.) A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then, as one of the stewardesses, as they were called then, was bringing the captain his lunch, the woman shoved her aside and rushed into the cockpit, rapidly followed by the man.
(2) The Liberal Democrat MEP Sarah Ludford also welcomed the decision, saying: "The court has struck exactly the right balance in judging that BA's corporate image policy should not override right of BA stewardess Nadia Eweida to wear a cross whereas genuine health and safety issues in a hospital could rule out nurse Shirley Chaplin's desire to wear one.
(3) Cethan Leahy said the novel now looked like a "tale which is possibly about the fun hi-jinks of four air stewardesses", while children's writer Louie Stowell wrote: "I think, after that Bell Jar cover, my next pitch for a kids book will be The Big Pink Book of Low Expectations For Girls.
(4) It has been followed by shows like Pan Am , which celebrates and glamorises the life of air stewardesses in the 1960s, when flying was a far cry from the crowded hell that it is nowadays.
(5) I asked the chief stewardess why the maid didn’t quit.
(6) But in a second round of tests, the scientists interleaved words that had no special meaning for the control group, but were associated with the airline incident, such as "Atlantic", "runway", "stewardess" and "Transat".
(7) These values were then correlated with the records of 62 pilots and stewardesses with subnormal hemoglobin values to assure the opertional predictive validity.
(8) I heard of one stewardess who married their owner, but those kinds of relationships are rare.” Drugs are less ubiquitous than you might think.
(9) "I've been paying the salaries of 500 Germans from drivers to pilots and stewardesses for 37 days.
(10) Travel alone offers no real danger to the pregnant stewardess in the first trimester of pregnancy; however, because of the changing mechanics of her size, posture, and increasing unsteadiness, it would be wisest to require a pregnant stewardess to cease flying at 13 weeks, with an absolute prohibition of flying after the 20th week.
(11) Remember her ex-air stewardess mother and the "doors to manual" jibes.
(12) A procedure was developed whereby the high capacity Boeing 747 could be disinsected by four stewardesses in less than 1 minute.
(13) The author outlines the normal changes to be expected with advancing pregnancy and those factors that could have an adverse effect on a pregnant stewardess and her fetus, such as hypoxia, trauma, abortion, the hazards of travel, and flying itself.
(14) Brussels attacks: bomber 'caught in Turkey last June' says Turkish president – live Read more The woman has since been identified as Indian air stewardess Nidhi Chaphekar, a mother of two from Mumbai who arrived at the terminal ahead of meeting her colleagues for a flight to Newark in the United States.
(15) Particularly at risk may be stewardesses if they continue their strenuous work while pregnant.
(16) Engelhard seems to have taken this as a compliment and began calling one of the stewardesses on his private jet Pussy Galore, after the character played in the film by Honor Blackman.
(17) He just shrugged OK, so I stood by him and smiled for the camera while a stewardess did the snap.
(18) There is much pressure on the airlines to allow stewardesses to fly while pregnant.
(19) Murphy Govind, the brother of MH17 stewardess Angeline Premila Rajandran , said: "It is sad that the bodies will not be home before [Eid, the end of the fasting period] but there's nothing we can do.
(20) But we soon realised the Israelis had chosen the real, real ugly solution to attack in international water … It was only when I got on my flight home that I realised that people had died in the attack, when the stewardess told me on the plane," he said.