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English Dictionary: kitchen by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kitchen
n
  1. a room equipped for preparing meals
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kitchen \Kitch"en\ (k[icr]ch"[ecr]n), n. [OE. kichen, kichene,
      kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen,
      fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See
      {Cook} to prepare food, and cf. {Cuisine}.]
      1. A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery.
  
                     Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
                     A fat kitchen makes a lean will.         --Franklin.
  
      2. A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen.
  
      {Kitchen garden}. See under {Garden}.
  
      {Kitchen lee}, dirty soapsuds. [Obs.] [bd]A brazen tub of
            kitchen lee.[b8] --Ford.
  
      {Kitchen stuff}, fat collected from pots and pans. --Donne.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kitchen \Kitch"en\, v. t.
      To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the
      kitchen. [Obs.] --Shak.
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