English Dictionary: kitchen | by the DICT Development Group |
3 results for kitchen | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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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. |