n. A heated room, especially such a room for bathing purposes; a hothouse; a stove.n. Specifically, a hatters' drying-room.n. A room; a chamber; a closet.n. A brothel; a bagnio: often used in the plural, sometimes with the force of a singular noun.n. A lock hospital. See hospital.n. A prostitute: sometimes in the plural form with a singular meaning.n. A close vessel in which something is cooked or stewed; a stew-pot or stew-pan.n. Food cooked by stewing; especially, meat or fish prepared by slow cooking in a liquid.n. A state of agitation or ferment; mental disturbance; worry; fuss.To bathe, as in a liquid or a vapor-bath.Figuratively, to steep.To cook (food) by simmering or slowly boiling; prepare by cooking in a liquid kept at the simmering-point: as, to stew meat or fruit; to stew oysters.To be cooked by slowly simmering.n. A pond, usually artificial, used for domestic purposes; especially, a pool or tank in which fish are kept until needed for the table; a vivarium; a stew-pond.n. A breeding-place for tame pheasants.n. An artificial bed of oysters: used of the old Roman and also of the modern methods of fattening.n. Dust; a cloud of dust, smoke, or vapor.A Middle English variant of stow.