Stewed vs Shewed - What's the difference?
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Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering. See stew.
Intoxicated by an excess of alcohol.
(Of tea) Bitter from having been steeped too long.
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* {{quote-book, year= 1774, by= (Le Page Du Pratz), title= The History of Louisiana: Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries that Lie on Both Sides of the River Mississippi: with an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate, and Products, url= http://books.google.com/books?id=zEoUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA42, chapter= The Governor surprized the Natchez with seven hundred Men., publisher= T. Becket
, location= London, page= 42, passage= I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.}}
* 1786 : Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page xiv.
* 1843 : '', Book 2, Ch. 5, ''Twelfth Century
* 1884 : '', Sec. 4, ''Concerning the Women
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* 1921 : Marcel Proust translated by C. K. Moncrieff, Swann's Way , page 1.
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