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Landreeve :: Landreeve (n.) A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward..

Stew :: Stew (n.) A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.

Bouilli :: Bouilli (n.) Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.

Reve :: Reve (n.) An officer, steward, or governor..

Factor :: Factor (n.) A steward or bailiff of an estate.

Stewartry :: Stewartry (n.) The office of a steward; stewardship.

Chiltern Hundreds :: Chiltern Hundreds () A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats..

Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery..

Curry :: Curry (n.) A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry..

Zoutch :: Zoutch (v. t.) To stew, as flounders, eels, etc., with just enough or liquid to cover them..

Steward :: Steward (n.) In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students..

Stoak :: Stives (n. pl.) Stews; a brothel.

Dispense :: Dispense (v. t.) To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines..

Stewartry :: Stewardship (n.) The office of a steward.

Saucepan :: Saucepan (n.) A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan..

Sauce :: Sauce (n.) Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc..

Hotchpotch :: Hotchpotch (n.) A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge.

Dispender :: Dispender (n.) One who dispends or expends; a steward.

Wasteweir :: Wasteweir (n.) An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like..

Laver :: Laver (n.) The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan..

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