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English Dictionary: stove by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stove
n
  1. a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove"
    Synonym(s): stove, kitchen stove, range, kitchen range, cooking stove
  2. any heating apparatus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stave \Stave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Staved}or {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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stove \Stove\,
      imp. of {Stave}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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