2. 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.
3. A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist
church.
4. 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.
5. In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise
jurisdiction over royal lands. Erskine.
Lord high steward, formerly, the first officer of the crown; afterward,
an officer occasionally appointed, as for a coronation, or upon the
trial of a peer. [Eng.]