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n. A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of a gate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Three circles of stones set up gatewise. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a kind of ironware with stone gray enamel. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Lich wake, under Lich. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & adv. Somewhat late; backward. [ Obs. ] “Lateward lands.” Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Mete to measure + wand. ] A measuring rod. Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A stew made typically of meat, vegetables, and any conveniently available ingredients; also, an Irish version of burgoo.
Syn. -- Irish burgoo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Golf) In informal and friendly games of golf, a permission to take another stroke without counting the previous stroke against the score, when a stroke was poorly played; a free stroke; as, to take a mulligan. [ PJC ]

a. Worthy of observation or notice; remarkable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Cetewale. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Stow. ] 1. A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Chaucer. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An artificial bed of oysters. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stewed p. pr. & vb. n. Stewing. ] [ OE. stuven, OF. estuver, F. étuver, fr. OF. estuve, F. étuve, a sweating house, a room heated for a bath; probably of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stove. See Stove, and cf. Stive to 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. stue, stuwe, OF. estuve. See Stew, v. t. ] 1. A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

As burning Aetna from his boiling stew
Doth belch out flames. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lydians were inhibited by Cyrus to use any armor, and give themselves to baths and stews. Abp. Abbot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A brothel; -- usually in the plural. Bacon. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

There be that hate harlots, and never were at the stews. Aschman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A prostitute. [ Obs. ] Sir A. Weldon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. stiward, AS. stīweard, stigweard, literally, a sty ward; stigu sty + weard warden, guardian, -- his first duty having been probably to attend to the domestic animals. √164. See Sty pen for swine, Ward. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Worthy to be stewards of rent and land. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

They came near to the steward of Joseph's house. Gen. xliii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

As good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 1 Pet. iv. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands. Erskine. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To manage as a steward. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner, or with the care, of a steward. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To be stewardly dispensed, not wastefully spent. Tooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a steward. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An overseer or superintendent. [ R. ] “The stewartry of provisions.” Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The office of a steward; stewardship. [ R. ] Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In Scotland, the jurisdiction of a steward; also, the lands under such jurisdiction. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Suiting a stew, or brothel. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pan used for stewing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pot used for stewing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tewed p. pr. & vb. n. Tewing. ] [ OE. tewen, tawen. √64. See Taw, v. ] 1. To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to beat; to scourge; also, to pull about; to maul; to tease; to vex. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To work hard; to strive; to fuse. [ Local ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Taw to tow, Tow, v. t. ] To tow along, as a vessel. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rope or chain for towing a boat; also, a cord; a string. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Ethnol.) A tribe of American Indians including many of the Pueblos of New Mexico and adjacent regions. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fatigued; worn with labor or hardship. [ Obs. or Local ] Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. tuel, OF. tuiel, tuel, F. tuyau; of Teutonic origin; cf. Dan. tud, D. tuit, Prov. G. zaute. Cf. Tuyère. ] 1. A pipe, funnel, or chimney, as for smoke. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The tuyère of a furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The lapwing; -- called also teewheep. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Tew, v. t. ] To beat; to break, as flax or hemp. [ Obs. ] Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A composition of line and water, or of whiting size, and water, or the like, used for whitening walls, ceilings, etc.; milk of lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. a glossing over or cover up (of crimes or misfeasance). [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Whitewashed p. pr. & vb. n. Whitewashing. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To apply a white liquid composition to; to whiten with whitewash. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make white; to give a fair external appearance to; to clear from imputations or disgrace; hence, to clear (a bankrupt) from obligation to pay debts. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In various games, to defeat (an opponent) so that he fails to score, or to reach a certain point in the game; to skunk. [ Colloq., U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. to gloss over or cover up (crimes or misfeasance). [ PJC ]

n. One who whitewashes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum) with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed in grass lands and pastures; -- called also oxeye daisy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. (b) The velvet duck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Several other kinds of light-colored wood are called whitewood in various countries, as the wood of Bignonia leucoxylon in the West Indies, of Pittosporum bicolor in Tasmania, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whitewood bark. See the Note under Canella. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) Wild camomile. (b) A kind of Solomon's seal (Polygonum officinale). [ 1913 Webster ]