Stave \Stave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stavedor Stove; p. pr. &
vb. n. Staving.]
[From Stave, n., or Staff, n.]
1. To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in;
to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave
in a boat.
2. To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
The condition of a servant staves him off to a
distance. --South.
3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with
off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
And answered with such craft as women use, Guilty or
guilties, to stave off a chance That breaks upon
them perilously. --Tennyson.
4. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
All the wine in the city has been staved. --Sandys.
5. To furnish with staves or rundles. --Knolles.
6. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking
iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which
lead has been run.
To stave and tail, in bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose
with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to
hold back the dog by the tail. --Nares.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Stove \Stove\, n. [D. stoof a foot stove, originally, a heated
room, a room for a bath; akin to G. stube room, OHG. stuba a
heated room, AS. stofe, Icel. stofa a room, bathing room, Sw.
stufva, stuga, a room, Dan. stue; of unknown origin. Cf.
Estufa, Stew, Stufa.]
1. A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing
house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly,
designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a
parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense,
to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes
or in the processes of the arts.
When most of the waiters were commanded away to
their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly
emptied, in came a company of musketeers. --Earl of
Strafford.
How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and
caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy,
or under the pole! --Burton.
2. An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for
fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously
constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a
room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.
Cooking stove, a stove with an oven, opening for pots,
kettles, and the like, -- used for cooking.
Dry stove. See under Dry.
Foot stove. See under Foot.
Franklin stove. See in the Vocabulary.
Stove plant (Bot.), a plant which requires artificial heat
to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates.
Stove plate, thin iron castings for the parts of stoves.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Stove \Stove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoved; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stoving.]
1. To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as,
to stove orange trees. --Bacon.
2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Hydrocarbon \Hy`dro*car"bon\, n. [Hydro-, 2 + carbon.]
(Chem.)
A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane,
benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.
Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace,
or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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