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Definition of Stove

1. Noun. A kitchen appliance used for cooking food. "Dinner was already on the stove"

Definition of Stove

1. 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.

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

Definition of Stove

1. Noun. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room. ¹

2. Noun. A device for heating food, (''UK'') a cooker. ¹

3. Noun. (context: chiefly UK) A hothouse (in which plants are kept). ¹

4. Verb. (past of stave) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stove

1. a heating apparatus [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stove

Literary usage of Stove

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Any system of heating must necessarily include three things, the combustion of fuel in a fireplace, stove, furnace, steam or hot-water boiler; ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The stove of the defendants does, however, contain all those mentioned and contain them in combination. That each of them was an old device, well known and ..."

3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1908)
"SEVERAL years ago, when the government first began to issue things to the Apache Indians of Arizona, the agent at Fort Apache received a stove to be issued ..."

4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1881)
"1 is the stove of 1869, the year in which itn> thoroughly tested at the ... 2, d>: stove of 1876 and 1877, in which it was intended to reduce the PS: by ..."

5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"Thereupon she jumped up and sat upon the reservoir on the stove. At that time, all the top of the stove had been taken off ..."

6. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"The ancient stove reposed within six feet of him, and before his face. ... I "stove HEAP GONE." entered the shed presently and threw down some more clothes, ..."

7. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"The combination with the back plate 1 of the cooking stove A, of the reservoir C, arranged on a support about midway between the top and bottom plates of ..."

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