stew

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To cook (food) by simmering or boiling slowly.
• intransitive verb To undergo cooking by boiling slowly or simmering.
• intransitive verb Informal To suffer with oppressive heat or stuffy confinement; swelter.
• intransitive verb Informal To be in a state of anxiety or agitation. synonym: boil.
• noun A dish cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat or fish and vegetables with stock.
• noun A mixture likened to this dish.
• noun Informal Mental agitation.
• noun Archaic A brothel.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Dust; a cloud of dust, smoke, or vapor.
• noun 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.
• noun A breeding-place for tame pheasants.
• noun An artificial bed of oysters: used of the old Roman and also of the modern methods of fattening.
• noun A heated room, especially such a room for bathing purposes; a hothouse; a stove.
• noun Specifically, a hatters' drying-room.
• noun A room; a chamber; a closet.
• noun A brothel; a bagnio: often used in the plural, sometimes with the force of a singular noun.
• noun A lock hospital. See hospital.
• noun A prostitute: sometimes in the plural form with a singular meaning.
• noun A close vessel in which something is cooked or stewed; a stew-pot or stew-pan.
• noun Food cooked by stewing; especially, meat or fish prepared by slow cooking in a liquid.
• noun 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.
• A Middle English variant of stow.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
• noun Local, U.S. An artificial bed of oysters.
• intransitive verb To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.
• transitive verb To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling.
• noun obsolete A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.
• noun A brothel; -- usually in the plural.
• noun obsolete A prostitute.
• noun A dish prepared by stewing.
• noun colloq. A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun obsolete A prostitute.
• noun Sussex A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.
• noun slang A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.
• verb To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
• verb transitive To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
• verb intransitive, figuratively To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
• verb intransitive, figuratively To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
• noun A steward or stewardess on an airplane.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb be in a huff; be silent or sullen
• verb bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings
• noun agitation resulting from active worry
• noun food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables
• verb cook slowly and for a long time in liquid