Kitchen
['kɪtʃɪn;-tʃ(ə)n] or ['kɪtʃɪn]
Definition
(n.) A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery.
(n.) A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen.
(v. t.) To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen.
Typist: Stanley
Definition
n. a room where food is cooked: a utensil with a stove for dressing food &c.: anything eaten as a relish with bread potatoes &c.—v.t. (Shak.) to regale in the cook-room: to serve as relish to food to make palatable to use sparingly as one would a relish—to make it last.—ns. Kitch′endom the domain of the kitchen; Kitch′ener a person employed in the kitchen: a cooking-stove; Kitch′en-fee the fat which falls from meat in roasting; Kitch′en-gar′den a garden where vegetables are cultivated for the kitchen; Kitch′en-knave a scullion; Kitch′en-maid a maid or servant whose work is in the kitchen; Kitch′en-mid′den (Dan. kjé°‡kenmé°€ding) a prehistoric rubbish-heap in Denmark the north of Scotland &c.; Kitch′en-phys′ic substantial fare (Milt.); Kitch′en-range a kitchen grate with oven boiler &c. attached for cooking; Kitch′en-stuff material used in kitchens: kitchen refuse esp. fat from pots &c.; Kitch′en-wench a kitchen-maid.
Typist: Tabitha
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a kitchen, denotes you will be forced to meet emergencies which will depress your spirits. For a woman to dream that her kitchen is clear. and orderly, foretells she will become the mistress of interesting fortunes.
Typed by Chauncey
Examples
- Being delivered into the charge of the ma?tresse, I was led through a long narrow passage into a foreign kitchen, very clean but very strange. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I went into the kitchen, the butler's pantry, the gun-room, the billiard-room, the drawing-room, and finally the dining-room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He led them into a stone kitchen, fitted with coppers for dressing the prison food, and pointed to a door. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Even then, I would have avoided the room where they all were, but for its being the neat-tiled kitchen I have mentioned more than once. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- We talk of you in the kitchen every night, and wonder what you are saying and doing. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- At the back were trees, among which were to be found the stables, and the big kitchen garden, behind which was a wood. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The necessary steps back and forth from the breakfast room to the kitchen to prepare hot, crunchy toast made this portion of breakfast-getting a not agreeable feature. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Why,' replied Mr. Trotter, 'my master and I, being in the confidence of the two servants, will be secreted in the kitchen at ten o'clock. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She went into the kitchen, and stirred up the fire, and lighted the house, and prepared for the wanderer's refreshment. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I can't,' replied the girl; 'Missis Raddle raked out the kitchen fire afore she went to bed, and locked up the kittle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I was shown a little kitchen with a little stove and oven, with few but bright brasses, two chairs and a table. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He put his arm round Letty's neck silently, and led her into the kitchen without his usual jokes and caresses. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I shall find the means I want for keeping it safe and dry in its hiding-place, among the litter of old things in Mrs. Yolland's kitchen. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Through the greater part of Europe, a kitchen garden is not at present supposed to deserve a better inclosure than mat recommended by Columella. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When we were left alone in the stone-flagged kitchen, it was astonishing how rapidly that sprained ankle recovered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It's a six-roomer, exclusive of kitchens, said Mr. Guppy, and in the opinion of my friends, a commodious tenement. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- These canes are terminated by tubes of pipe-clay, to prevent their being burnt, and other bamboo canes conduct the gas intended for lighting the streets, and into large apartments and kitchens. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- A stone-flagged passage, with the kitchens branching away from it, led by a wooden staircase directly to the first floor of the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Kitchens and pantries in particular should be thoroughly lighted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- That was her dinner that old Thabis is taking to the kitchens. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Editor: Stu