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Found 9 hits - Term: stove, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hydrocarbon \hy`drocar"bon\, n. hydro-, 2 + carbon. chem.
   a compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane,
   benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.
   1913 webster

   hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace,
      or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.
      1913 webster
see also:
hydrocarbon burner furnace stove 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stave \stave\, v. t. imp.  p. p. staved st=avd or
   stove st=ov; p. pr.  vb. n. staving. from stave,
   n., or staff, n.
   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.
      1913 webster

   2. to push, as with a staff; -- with off.
      1913 webster

            the condition of a servant staves him off to a
            distance.                             --south.
      1913 webster

   3. to delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with
      off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
      1913 webster

            and answered with such craft as women use,
            guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance
            that breaks upon them perilously.     --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   4. to suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
      1913 webster

            all the wine in the city has been staved. --sandys.
      1913 webster

   5. to furnish with staves or rundles. --knolles.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   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. --nares.
      1913 webster
see also:
staved stove staving stave staff to stave and tail 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stove \stove\, n. d. stoof a foot stove, originally, a heated
   room, a room for a bath; akin to g. stube room, ohg. stuba a
   heated room, as. stofe, icel. stofa a room, bathing room, sw.
   stufva, stuga, a room, dan. stue; of unknown origin. cf.
   estufa, stew, stufa.
   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.
      1913 webster

            when most of the waiters were commanded away to
            their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly
            emptied, in came a company of musketeers. --earl of
                                                  strafford.
      1913 webster

            how tedious is it to them that live in stoves and
            caves half a year together, as in iceland, muscovy,
            or under the pole                    --burton.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   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.
      pjc

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
estufa stew stufa cooking stove cooking stove dry stove 
dry foot stove foot franklin stove stove plant 
stove plate 
[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stove \stove\, v. t. imp.  p. p. stoved; p. pr.  vb. n.
   stoving.
   1. to keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as,
      to stove orange trees. --bacon.
      1913 webster

   2. to heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
      1913 webster
see also:
stoved stoving 
[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stove \stove\ st=ov,
   imp. of stave.
   1913 webster
see also:
stave 
[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0
stave
     n 1: music the system of five horizontal lines on which the
          musical notes are written syn: staff
     2: one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a
        barrel or bucket syn: lag
     3: a crosspiece between the legs of a chair syn: rung, round
     v 1: furnich with staves; "stave a ladder"
     2: burst or force a hole into something syn: stave in
     also: stove
see also:
staff lag rung round stave in stove 

[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0
stove
     n 1: a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was
          already on the stove" syn: kitchen stove, range, kitchen
          range, cooking stove
     2: any heating apparatus
see also:
kitchen stove range kitchen range cooking stove 
[8] : WordNet (r) 2.0
stove
     see stave
see also:
stave 
[9] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
42 moby thesaurus words for "stove":
   seger cone, acid kiln, blast furnace, boiler, bottle-gas stove,
   brickkiln, burner, butane stove, calefactor, caliduct, cement kiln,
   coal furnace, coal stove, cook stove, cooker, cookery, element,
   enamel kiln, furnace, gas jet, gas stove, heater, heating duct,
   jet, kiln, kitchener, limekiln, muffle kiln, oven, pilot light,
   pyrometer, pyrometric cone, range, reverberatory,
   reverberatory kiln, salamander, salamander stove, smelter,
   steam pipe, tewel, tuyere, warmer





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Stove >> S Words
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Stove Bolt >> S Words
Stove Bolt, definition of term: Stove Bolt
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Primus Stove >> P Words
Primus Stove, definition of term: Primus Stove
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Gas Stove >> G Words
Gas Stove, definition of term: Gas Stove
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