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