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Court-baron :: Court-baron (n.) An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse..

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

Seneschal :: Seneschal (n.) An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands..

Greencloth :: Greencloth (n.) A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates..

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..

Stewardess :: Steward (v. t.) To manage as a steward.

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

Steward :: Steward (n.) A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church..

Court-leet :: Court-leet (n.) A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet..

Approver :: Approver (v. t.) A bailiff or steward; an agent.

Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc..

Graff :: Graff (n.) A steward; an overseer.

Provisor :: Provisor (n.) The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house..

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

#NAME? :: -ship (n.) A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship..

Stewish :: Stewartry (n.) In Scotland, the jurisdiction of a steward; also, the lands under such jurisdiction..

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..

Steward :: Steward (n.) A person employed in a hotel, or a club, or on board a ship, to provide for the table, superintend the culinary affairs, etc. In naval vessels, the captain's steward, wardroom steward, steerage steward, warrant officers steward, etc., are petty officers who provide for the messes under their charge..

Reeve :: Reeve (n.) an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc..

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