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Stove   /stoʊv/   Listen
noun
Stove  n.  
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." "How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!"
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.
3.
Hence, in modern dwellings: An appliance having a top surface with fittings suitable for heating pots and pans for cooking, frying, or boiling food, most commonly heated by gas or electricity, and often combined with an oven in a single unit; a cooking stove. Such units commonly have two to six heating surfaces, called burners, even if they are heated by electricity rather than a gas flame.
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.


verb
Stave  v. t.  (past & past part. stove or staved; pres. part. staving)  
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."
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 guiltless, to stave off a chance That breaks upon them perilously."
4.
To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask. "All the wine in the city has been staved."
5.
To furnish with staves or rundles.
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.


Stove  v. t.  (past & past part. stoved; pres. part. stoving)  
1.
To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.
2.
To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.


Stave  v. i.  (past & past part. stove or staved; pres. part. staving)  To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments. "Like a vessel of glass she stove and sank."


Stove  v.  Imp. of Stave.





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"Stove" Quotes from Famous Books



... a little stove, and the children could see the glow of fire in one end of it. And, as Mun Bun had said, steam was coming from what ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's • Laura Lee Hope
... task in lifting the boat over the trunks of trees that had fallen into the channel of the river or that had been left by the floods, and at length we stove her in upon a sunken log. The injury she received was too serious not to require immediate repair; and we, therefore, patched her up with a tin plate. This accident occasioned some delay, and the morning was consumed without our ...
— Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete • Charles Sturt
... camisole, amid vegetables and sewing. The wooden blinds are flung back on the faded yellow walls, revealing a portion of white bed-curtain and a heavy middle-aged woman, en camisole, passing between the cooking stove, in which a rabbit in a tin pail lies steeping, and the men sitting at their trades in the windows. The smell of leather follows me for several steps; a few doors farther a girl sits trimming a bonnet, her mother beside her. The girl looks up, pale with the exhausting heat. At the corner ...
— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore
... justified by the luxury Tirechair had lavished on their adornment. Flanders tapestry hung on the walls, and a large bed with a top valance of green serge, like a peasant's bed, was amply furnished with mattresses, and covered with good sheets of fine linen. Each room had a stove called a chauffe-doux; the floor, carefully polished by Dame Tirechair's apprentices, shone like the woodwork of a shrine. Instead of stools, the lodgers had deep chairs of carved walnut, the spoils probably of some raided castle. Two chests with pewter mouldings, and tables on twisted legs, ...
— The Exiles • Honore de Balzac
... cutter, with eight men, was sent on shore in search of an anchorage where water could be procured. Nothing of the boat and crew was again seen but the wreck of the boat showing that it had been stove in by the rocks. After a careful but hopeless search for the men, their pressing need for water caused them to abandon further delay, and they left to examine the ...
— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc


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