Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 158
Stewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stew.
Stew (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.
Stew (v. i.) To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.
Stew (n.) A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse. [Obs.]
As burning Aetna from his boiling stew Doth belch out flames. -- Spenser.
The Lydians were inhibited by Cyrus to use any armor, and give themselves to baths and stews. -- Abp. Abbot.
Stew (n.) A brothel; -- usually in the plural. -- Bacon. South.
There be that hate harlots, and never were at the stews. -- Aschman.
Stew (n.) A prostitute. [Obs.] -- Sir A. Weldon.
Stew (n.) A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.
Stew (n.) A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew. [Colloq.]
Stew (n.) Agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams" [syn: fret, stew, sweat, lather, swither].
Stew (n.) Food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables.
Stew (v.) Be in a huff; be silent or sullen [syn: grizzle, brood, stew].
Stew (v.) Bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings [syn: stew, grudge].
Stew (v.) Cook slowly and for a long time in liquid; "Stew the vegetables in wine".
Stew (n.) [ C or U ] A type of food consisting usually of meat or fish and vegetables cooked slowly in a small amount of liquid.
// Lamb/ bean/ fish stew.
// She prepared a hearty stew for dinner.
Idiom: In a stew
In a stew (Informal) If someone is in a stew, that person is in a difficult situation that causes them to feel worried or upset.
// William is in a stew about/over his tax return.
Stew (v.) [ T ] To cook meat, fish, vegetables, or fruit slowly and gently in a little liquid.
Stew (v.) [ I ] (Informal) To be angry or worried.
// You're not still stewing about what happened yesterday, are you?
Stew (v.) [ I ] (UK) To do nothing useful.
// With jobs so scarce, many young people spend long hours with little to do but drink and stew.
Idiom: Stew (in your own juice)
Stew (in your own juice) (Informal) To think about or suffer the results of your own actions, without anyone giving you any help.
Steward (n.) A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep accounts, and the like.
Worthy to be stewards of rent and land. -- Chaucer.
They came near to the steward of Joseph's house. -- Gen. xliii. 19.
As good stewards of the manifold grace of God. -- 1 Pet. iv. 10.
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.
Steward (n.) A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church.
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 (n.) In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands. -- Erskine.
Lord high steward, formerly, the first officer of the crown; afterward, an officer occasionally appointed, as for a coronation, or upon the trial of a peer. [Eng.]
Steward (v. t.) To manage as a steward. [Obs.]
Steward (n.) Someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else.
Steward (n.) The ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements.
Steward (n.) An attendant on an airplane [syn: steward, flight attendant].
Steward (n.) A union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management [syn: shop steward, steward].
Steward (n.) One having charge of buildings or grounds or animals [syn: custodian, keeper, steward].
Steward, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 271
Housing Units (2000): 103
Land area (2000): 0.124263 sq. miles (0.321840 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.124263 sq. miles (0.321840 sq. km)
FIPS code: 72624
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.848485 N, 89.020671 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60553
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Steward, IL
Steward
Stewardess (n.) A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.
Stewardess (n.) A woman steward on an airplane [syn: stewardess, air hostess, hostess].
Stewardly (adv.) In a manner, or with the care, of a steward. [R.]
To be stewardly dispensed, not wastefully spent. -- Tooker.
Stewardship (n.) The office of a steward. -- Shak.
Stewardship (n.) The position of steward.
Stewartry (n.) An overseer or superintendent. [R.] "The stewartry of provisions." -- Tooke.
Stewartry (n.) The office of a steward; stewardship. [R.] -- Byron.
Stewartry (n.) In Scotland, the jurisdiction of a steward; also, the lands under such jurisdiction.
Stewish (a.) Suiting a stew, or brothel. -- Bp. Hall.
Stewpan (n.) A pan used for stewing.
Stewpan (n.) A saucepan used for stewing [syn: stewing pan, stewpan].
Stewpan (n.) A pan for stewing; saucepan.
// We need to buy a stewpan.
Stewpot (n.) A pot used for stewing.
Compare: Stee
Stee (n.) A ladder. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [Written also stey.]
Stey (n.) See Stee.
Sthenic (a.) Strong; active; -- said especially of morbid states attended with excessive action of the heart and blood vessels, and characterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervous system; as, a sthenic fever.
Stiacciato (n.) The lowest relief, -- often used in Italian sculpture of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Stian (n.) A sty on the eye. See Styan.
Stibborn (a.) Stubborn.
Stibial (a.) Like, or having the qualities of, antimony; antimonial.
Stibialism (n.) Antimonial intoxication or poisoning.
Stibiated (a.) Combined or impregnated with antimony (stibium).
Stibic (a.) Antimonic; -- used with reference to certain compounds of antimony.
Stibiconite (n.) A native oxide of antimony occurring in masses of a yellow color.
Stibine (n.) Antimony hydride, or hydrogen antimonide, a colorless gas produced by the action of nascent hydrogen on antimony. It has a characteristic odor and burns with a characteristic greenish flame. Formerly called also antimoniureted hydrogen.
Stibious (a.) Antimonious.
Stibium (n.) The technical name of antimony.
Stibium (n.) Stibnite.
Stibnite (n.) A mineral of a lead-gray color and brilliant metallic luster, occurring in prismatic crystals; sulphide of antimony; -- called also antimony glance, and gray antimony.
Stibonium (n.) The hypothetical radical SbH4, analogous to ammonium; -- called also antimonium.
Sticcado (n.) An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks.
Stich (n.) A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.
Stich (n.) A line in the Scriptures; specifically (Hebrew Scriptures), one of the rhythmic lines in the poetical books and passages of the Old Treatment, as written in the oldest Hebrew manuscripts and in the Revised Version of the English Bible.
Stich (n.) A row, line, or rank of trees.
Stichic (a.) Of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines.
Stichida (n. pl. ) of Stichidium.
Stichidium (n.) A special podlike or fusiform branch containing tetraspores. It is found in certain red algae.
Stichomancy (n.) Divination by lines, or passages of books, taken at hazard.
Stichometrical (a.) Of or pertaining to stichometry; characterized by stichs, or lines.
Stichometry (n.) Measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.
Stichometry (n.) Division of the text of a book into lines; especially, the division of the text of books into lines accommodated to the sense, -- a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted.
Stichwort (n.) A kind of chickweed (Stellaria Holostea).
Stick (n.) A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.
Withered sticks to gather, which might serve Against a winter's day. -- Milton.
Stick (n.) Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick.
Stick (n.) Anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax.
Stick (n.) A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick.
Stick (n.) (Print.) A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used.
Stick (n.) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
A stick of eels, Twenty-five eels. [Prov. Eng.]
Stick chimney, A chimney made of sticks laid crosswise, and cemented with clay or mud, as in some log houses. [U.S.]
Stick insect, (Zool.), Any one of various species of wingless orthopterous insects of the family Phasmidae, which have a long round body, resembling a stick in form and color, and long legs, which are often held rigidly in such positions as to make them resemble small twigs. They thus imitate the branches and twigs of the trees on which they live. The common American species is Diapheromera femorata. Some of the Asiatic species are more than a foot long.
To cut one's stick, or To cut stick, To run away. [Slang] -- De Quincey.
Stuck (imp. & p. p.) of Stick.
Sticked () of Stick.
Sticking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stick.
Stick (v. t.) To penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast.
And sticked him with bodkins anon. -- Chaucer.
It was a shame . . . to stick him under the other gentleman's arm while he was redding the fray. -- Sir W. Scott.
Stick (v. t.) To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger.
Thou stickest a dagger in me. -- Shak.
Stick (v. t.) To fasten, attach, or cause to remain, by thrusting in; hence, also, to adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing; as, to stick a pin on the sleeve.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew. -- Shak.
The points of spears are stuck within the shield. -- Dryden.
Stick (v. t.) To set; to fix in; as, to stick card teeth.
Stick (v. t.) To set with something pointed; as, to stick cards.
Stick (v. t.) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork.
Stick (v. t.) To attach by causing to adhere to the surface; as, to stick on a plaster; to stick a stamp on an envelope; also, to attach in any manner.
Stick (v. t.) (Print.) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type. [Cant]
Stick (v. t.) (Joinery) To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck.
Stick (v. t.) To cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle; as, to stick one with a hard problem. [Colloq.]
Stick (v. t.) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat. [Slang]
To stick out, To cause to project or protrude; to render prominent.
Stick (v. i.) To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall.
The green caterpillar breedeth in the inward parts of roses not blown, where the dew sticketh. -- Bacon.
Stick (v. i.) To remain where placed; to be fixed; to hold fast to any position so as to be moved with difficulty; to cling; to abide; to cleave; to be united closely.
A friend that sticketh closer than a brother. -- Prov. xviii. 24.
I am a kind of bur; I shall stick. -- Shak.
If on your fame our sex a bolt has thrown, 'T will ever stick through malice of your own. -- Young.
Stick (v. i.) To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed.
I had most need of blessing, and "Amen" Stuck in my throat. -- Shak.
The trembling weapon passed Through nine bull hides, . . . and stuck within the last. -- Dryden.
Stick (v. i.) To be embarrassed or puzzled; to hesitate; to be deterred, as by scruples; to scruple; -- often with at.
They will stick long at part of a demonstration for want of perceiving the connection of two ideas. -- Locke.
Some stick not to say, that the parson and attorney forged a will. -- Arbuthnot.
Stick (v. i.) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
This is the difficulty that sticks with the most reasonable. -- Swift.
To stick by. (a) To adhere closely to; to be firm in supporting. "We are your only friends; stick by us, and we will stick by you." -- Davenant.
To stick by. (b) To be troublesome by adhering. "I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me." -- Pope.
To stick out. (a) To project; to be prominent. "His bones that were not seen stick out." -- Job xxxiii. 21.
To stick out. (b) To persevere in a purpose; to hold out; as, the garrison stuck out until relieved. [Colloq.]
To stick to, To be persevering in holding to; as, to stick to a party or cause. "The advantage will be on our side if we stick to its essentials." -- Addison.
To stick up, To stand erect; as, his hair sticks up.
To stick up for, To assert and defend; as, to stick up for one's rights or for a friend. [Colloq.]
To stick upon, To dwell upon; not to forsake. "If the matter be knotty, the mind must stop and buckle to it, and stick upon it with labor and thought." -- Locke.
Stick (n.) An implement consisting of a length of wood; "he collected dry sticks for a campfire"; "the kid had a candied apple on a stick".
Stick (n.) A small thin branch of a tree.
Stick (n.) A lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane [syn: stick, control stick, joystick].
Stick (n.) A rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine.
Stick (n.) Informal terms for the leg; "fever left him weak on his sticks" [syn: pin, peg, stick].
Stick (n.) A long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball.
Stick (n.) A long thin implement resembling a length of wood; "cinnamon sticks"; "a stick of dynamite".
Stick (n.) Marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking [syn: joint, marijuana cigarette, reefer, stick, spliff].
Stick (n.) Threat of a penalty; "the policy so far is all stick and no carrot".
Stick (v.) Put, fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"; "stick your thumb in the crack" [syn: lodge, wedge, stick, deposit] [ant: dislodge, free].
Stick (v.) Stay put (in a certain place); "We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"; "Stay put in the corner here!"; "Stick around and you will learn something!" [syn: stay, stick, stick around, stay put] [ant: move].
Stick (v.) Stick to firmly; "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?" [syn: adhere, hold fast, bond, bind, stick, stick to].
Stick (v.) Be or become fixed; "The door sticks--we will have to plane it".
Stick (v.) Endure; "The label stuck to her for the rest of her life".
Stick (v.) Be a devoted follower or supporter; "The residents of this village adhered to Catholicism"; "She sticks to her principles" [syn: adhere, stick].
Stick (v.) Be loyal to; "She stood by her husband in times of trouble"; "The friends stuck together through the war" [syn: stand by, stick by, stick, adhere].
Stick (v.) Cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface; "stick some feathers in the turkey before you serve it".
Stick (v.) Fasten with an adhesive material like glue; "stick the poster onto the wall".
Stick (v.) Fasten with or as with pins or nails; "stick the photo onto the corkboard".
Stick (v.) Fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something; "stick the corner of the sheet under the mattress".
Stick (v.) Pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument; "he stuck the cloth with the needle".
Stick (v.) Pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed; "He stuck the needle into his finger".
Stick (v.) Come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere" [syn: cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere].
Stick (v.) Saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill" [syn: stick, sting].
Stick (v.) Be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me -- I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound].
Sticked (imp.) Stuck.
Sticker (n.) One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker.
Sticker (n.) That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses. [Colloq.] -- Tackeray.
Sticker (n.) (Mus.) In the organ, a small wooden rod which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
Sticker (n.) Same as Paster, 2. [Political Cant, U.S.]
Sticker (n.) A small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf [syn: spine, thorn, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikelet].
Sticker (n.) An adhesive label [syn: gummed label, sticker, paster].
Sticker (n.) A particularly difficult or baffling question or problem [syn: poser, stumper, toughie, sticker].
Sticker (n.) A short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing [syn: dagger, sticker].
Stickfuls (n. pl. ) of Stickful.
Stickful (n.) (Print.) As much set type as fills a composing stick.
Stickiness (n.) The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.
Sticking () a. & n. from Stick, v.
Sticking piece, A piece of beef cut from the neck. [Eng.]
Sticking place, The place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point.
But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. -- Shak.
Sticking plaster, An adhesive plaster for closing wounds, and for similar uses.
Sticking point. Same as Sticking place, above.
Sticking (a.) Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck" [syn: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking(p), sticking out(p)].
Stickit (a.) Stuck; spoiled in making. [Scot.]
Stickit minister, A candidate for the clerical office who fails, disqualified by incompetency or immorality.
Compare: Lac
Lac (n.) A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Laccifer lacca (formerly Coccus lacca), a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance.
Note: Stick-lac is the substance in its natural state, incrusting small twigs. When broken off, and the coloring matter partly removed, the granular residuum is called seed-lac. When melted, and reduced to a thin crust, it is called shell-lac or shellac. Lac is an important ingredient in sealing wax, dyes, varnishes, and lacquers.
Ceylon lac, A resinous exudation of the tree Croton lacciferum, resembling lac.
Lac dye, A scarlet dye obtained from stick-lac.
Lac lake, The coloring matter of lac dye when precipitated from its solutions by alum.
Mexican lac, An exudation of the tree Croton Draco.
Stick-lac (n.) See the Note under Lac.
Stickled (imp. & p. p.) of Stickle.
Stickling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stickle.
Stickle (v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening. [Obs.]
When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the race of fiends. -- Dryden.
Stickle (v. i.) To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle, And for the foe began to stickle. -- Hudibras.
While for paltry punk they roar and stickle. -- Dryden.
The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong. -- Hazlitt.
Stickle (v. i.) To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
Stickle (v. t.) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants. [Obs.]
Which [question] violently they pursue, Nor stickled would they be. -- Drayton.
Stickle (v. t.) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate. [Obs.]
They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Stickle (n.) A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Patient anglers, standing all the day Near to some shallow stickle or deep bay. -- W. Browne.
Stickle (v.) Dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points).
Stickleback (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.
Stickleback (n.) Small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research [syn: stickleback, prickleback].
Stickler (n.) One who stickles. Specifically:
Stickler (n.) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire. [Obs.]
Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise. -- Dryden.
Stickler (n.) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony.
The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of King James II. -- Swift.
Stickler (n.) Someone who insists on something; "a stickler for promptness".
Stick-seed (n.) (Bot.) A plant ({Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.