oven

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A chamber or enclosed compartment for heating, baking, or roasting food, as in a stove, or for firing, baking, hardening, or drying objects, as in a kiln.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A chamber or receptacle in which food is cooked by the heat radiated from the walls, roof, or floor. A chamber built of brick, tiles, or the like, and usually heated by fuel which is allowed to burn away before the food is introduced, the cooking being done by the heat retained.
2. n. In general, any inclosed chamber adapted to or used for applying heat to raw materials or to articles in process of manufacture. The heat so applied may be radiated from the previously or continuously heated walls of the inclosure, or it may be derived from currents of heated air or gases or superheated vapors circulated through the oven, from interior or exterior coils of pipes heated by steam or hot water, or from the solar rays. The name oven is given to a great variety of structures and devices employed in domestic industry, in chemical operations, and in the mechanical arts.
3. n. A furnace.
4. n. An oven-bird or its nest.
5. n. In bacteriology, a compartment which can be heated and maintained at a temperature sufficient to sterilize glassware and various bacteriological apparatus. Also hot-air sterilizer.
6. To bake in an oven.
7. To inclose; muffle up in an oven.

Wiktionary

1. n. A chamber used for baking or heating.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting