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a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove"

a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove"

imp. of Stave.

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.

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.

To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.

To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.

An apparatus with a fire for warming a room, cooking, etc.

To heat or keep warm.

Apparatus containing fire for warming a room, &c.

Of to stave.

Imp. & pp. of STAVE, v.

An apparatus, usually of metal, for heating or cooking.

To keep warm in a house or room by artificial heat; to heat.

A hothouse; an enclosed fireplace for heating an apartment; a room or space artificially warmed; a cooking apparatus.

To heat or dry, as in a stove.

Broken or burst in, as a hole in a ship.

A limited space, warmed artificially, and in which the air is slowly renewed. It is used for drying various substances, as plants, extracts, conserves, or for taking vapour baths. In this case, the stew or stove is said to be wet or humid; in the opposite case, it is said to be dry, (F.) seche. The latter, which is used by the Turks, is the Laconicum or Calidarium of the Romans. The former is their Tepidarium or Vaporarium. These kinds of baths greatly excite the cutaneous transpiration; and are valuable agents in rheumatic and other affections.

n. [Anglo-Saxon, lcelandic, Dutch] A house or room artificially warmed ; a hot-house ;- formerly, a small iron pan filled with live coal to warm the feet ;-a square or cylindrical box or case of iron, in which fire is kindled, as in a ship, shed, &c.;-also, a similar fire-place with apparatus to send heated air through pipes to warm a warehouse, church, &c. ;- also, a portable fire-place with apparatus for culinary purposes. Gas-stove, stove in which heat for warming, cooking, &c., is generated by gas in place of coal fire.