- of Stave.
- (v.t.) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.
- imp. of Stave.
- (v.t.) To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
- (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.
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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