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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



... took it all in at a glance, saw the sign-manual of commonness on every detail, from the cast-iron stove to the household utensils, and his gorge rose as he said to himself, "And this is virtue!—What am I here for?" said he aloud. "You are far too cunning not to guess, and I had better tell you plainly," cried he, sitting ...
— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac
... about ten minutes. While it is boiling put into a saucepan four tablespoons of olive-oil, three anchovies cut up fine with six olives (ripe ones preferable) and one-half tablespoon of capers. When these are fried add the vermicelli (well drained), mix well, and put the saucepan at the back of the stove. Turn the vermicelli over with a fork every few minutes until it ...
— Simple Italian Cookery • Antonia Isola
... not like a cook whose dinner has been sent back untasted? The best available ingredients were put into that confection and if it did not issue from the oven with those savory whiffs that compel appetite, my stove is at fault. Perhaps some good old literary housewife will tell me, disconsolate among my pots and pans, how long an idea must be boiled to be tender and how best to garnish a thought to an editor's taste? And yet, sir, your manners ...
— Journeys to Bagdad • Charles S. Brooks
... logs and his father followed him. Jarvis was just pouring coffee from a tin pot into a tin cup, and Ike was turning over some strips of bacon in an iron skillet on an iron stove. Both of them, watchful like all mountaineers, had heard the visitors coming, but they did not look up until they ...
— The Guns of Bull Run - A Story of the Civil War's Eve • Joseph A. Altsheler
... smacking in all its arrangements of the woodlands and of the days of pioneering. It has an open fireplace, where the flames crackle cheerfully on chilly evenings, and over the fireplace coals most of the cooking is done; but in really hot weather an oil stove serves instead. ...
— A Year in the Fields • John Burroughs


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