1. an apparatus in which electricity or a fuel is used to furnish heat, as for cooking or warmth.
2. A device that produces heat for specialized, especially industrial, purposes.
3. A kiln.
4. chiefly british A hothouse.
5. A past tense and a past participle of stave.

1. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
2. A device for heating food, (uk) a cooker.
3. A hothouse (in which plants are kept).
4. to heat or dry, as in a stove.
5. to keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
6. simple past tense and past participle of stave.

1. imp. of stave.
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3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. to keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
7. to heat or dry, as in a stove.

1. to heat in a stove or heated room; expose to moderate heat in a vessel.
2. to heat in or as in a stove: as, to stove feathers; to stove printed fabrics (to fix the color); to stove ropes (to make them pliable); to stove timber.
3. in vinegar-manuf., to expose (malt-wash, etc.) in casks to artificial heat in a close room, in order to induce acetous fermentation.
4. in ceramics, to expose to a low heat. see pottery, porcelain, and kiln.
5. to cook in a close vessel; stew.
6. to shut up, as in a stove; inclose; confine.
7. preterit and past participle of stave.
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9. in wool-bleaching, to expose (woolen yarn or cloth) in a dampened condition to the fumes of burning sulphur, and hence to the action of sulphurous acid, in a closed, usually wooden, building. the same treatment is sometimes applied to silk.
10. A room, chamber, or house artificially warmed. [obsolete except in the specific uses , , below.]
11. specifically— in horticulture, a glazed and artificially heated building for the culture of tender plants: the same as a greenhouse or hot house, except that the stove maintains a higher temperature—not lower than 60° F. see greenhouse, hothouse, and dry-stove.
12. A drying-chamber, as for plants, extracts, conserves, etc.; also, a highly heated drying-room, used in various manufactures.
13. A place for taking either liquid or vapor baths; a bath-house or bath-room.
14. A closed or partly closed vessel or receiver in which fuel is burned, the radiated heat being utilized for warming a room or for cooking.
15. in coram., a pottery-kiln.
16. in a furnace, the oven in which the blast is heated.
17. in bookbinding, an apparatus with which the finisher heats his tools, formerly made to burn charcoal, but latterly gas.
18. to a kind of fireplace with back and sides of ironwork and some arrangement for heating the air in chambers which communicate with the room.
19. A chamber in which hides are dehaired.
20. A stove having a tank or reservoir for hot water.

1. any heating apparatus
2. a kitchen appliance used for cooking food