Stove

[stəʊv] or [stov]

Definition

(noun.) any heating apparatus.

(noun.) a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; 'dinner was already on the stove'.

Typed by Dido--From WordNet

Definition

(-) of Stave

(-) imp. of Stave.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.

(v. t.) To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.

Inputed by Diego

Definition

n. an apparatus with a fire for warming a room cooking &c.: a pottery-kiln: an oven for heating the blast of a blast-furnace: a drying-room.—v.t. to heat or keep warm.—ns. Stove′-pipe a metal pipe for carrying smoke from a stove to a chimney-flue; Stove′pipe-hat a high silk hat; Stove′-plant a plant cultivated in a stove; Stove′-plate a lid or plate covering one of the holes in a cooking-stove.

pa.t. and pa.p. of stave.

Typed by Emile

Unserious Contents or Definition

To see a cooking stove in a dream, denotes that much unpleasantness will be modified by your timely interference. For a young woman to dream of using a cooking stove, foretells she will be too hasty in showing her appreciation of the attention of some person and thereby lose a closer friendship.

Typed by Larry

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