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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.
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The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore.
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A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury.
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In a manner, or with the care, of a steward.
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A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship.
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A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church.
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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.
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The office of a steward.
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To manage as a steward.
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The office of a steward; stewardship.
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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.
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A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.
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In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
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Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery.
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The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house.
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A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer.
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In Scotland, the jurisdiction of a steward; also, the lands under such jurisdiction.
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A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.
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An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands.
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A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court.
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