noun an artificial bed of oysters.
2. stew ·vt a prostitute.
3. stew ·vt a brothel;
usually in the plural.
4. stew ·vt a dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.
5. stew ·noun a small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
6. stew ·vi to be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.
7. stew ·vt a state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.
8. stew ·vt a place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.
9. stew ·vt 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.