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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Stove

Stōve, n.

noun

n. [A-S. stofe, a stove, bath, Icel. stofa, a room, Sw. stufva, stuga, Dan. stue, D. stoof, O. D. stove, L. Ger. stove, stave, O. H. Ger. stupa, stuba, M. H. Ger. stobe, N. H. Ger. stube, L. Lat. stuba, whence It. stufa, Sp. & Pg. estufa, Pr. estuba, O. Fr. estuve, N. Fr. étuve, a stove, bathing-room, hot-house.]

Sense 1. A house or room artificially warmed; a hot-house for plants. [Obs.] Bacon. Woodward.

Sense 2. Especially, an apparatus, usually of iron, variously constructed, in which a fire is made for warming a room or house, or for culinary or other purposes.

Cooking-stove, a stove with an oven, openings for pots, kettles, and the like, used for cooking.—Foot-stove, a small box with an iron pan, used for holding coals to warm the feet.—Franklin stove, a portable iron fire-place with open front, used chiefly for burning wood for warming an apartment;—so called because invented by Dr. Franklin.

Stōve, v. t.

verbtransitive

[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 and myrtles. [Obs.] Bacon.
  2. To heat as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
  3. (Naut.) To heat for the purpose of making pliable; as, to stove bolt-ropes. [Obs.] Pepys.

Stōve, imp.

past tense

imp. of stave. See STAVE.