stove

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An apparatus in which electricity or a fuel is used to furnish heat, as for cooking or warmth.
• noun A device that produces heat for specialized, especially industrial, purposes.
• noun A kiln.
• noun Chiefly British A hothouse.

from The Century Dictionary.

• 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.
• To heat in a stove or heated room; expose to moderate heat in a vessel.
• 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.
• In vinegar-manuf., to expose (malt-wash, etc.) in casks to artificial heat in a close room, in order to induce acetous fermentation.
• In ceramics, to expose to a low heat. See pottery, porcelain, and kiln.
• To cook in a close vessel; stew.
• To shut up, as in a stove; inclose; confine.
• Preterit and past participle of stave.
• noun A room, chamber, or house artificially warmed. [Obsolete except in the specific uses , , below.]
• noun 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.
• noun A drying-chamber, as for plants, extracts, conserves, etc.; also, a highly heated drying-room, used in various manufactures.
• noun A place for taking either liquid or vapor baths; a bath-house or bath-room.
• noun 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.
• noun In coram., a pottery-kiln.
• noun In a furnace, the oven in which the blast is heated.
• noun In bookbinding, an apparatus with which the finisher heats his tools, formerly made to burn charcoal, but latterly gas.
• noun 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.
• noun A chamber in which hides are dehaired.
• noun A stove having a tank or reservoir for hot water.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun 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.
• noun 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.
• noun 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.
• noun a stove with an oven, opening for pots, kettles, and the like, -- used for cooking.
• noun See under Dry.
• noun See under Foot.
• noun See in the Vocabulary.
• noun (Bot.) a plant which requires artificial heat to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates.
• noun thin iron castings for the parts of stoves.
• imp. of stave.
• transitive verb To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
• transitive verb To heat or dry, as in a stove.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb Simple past tense and past participle of stave.
• noun A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
• noun A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
• noun chiefly UK A hothouse (in which plants are kept).
• verb transitive To heat or dry, as in a stove.
• verb transitive To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun any heating apparatus
• noun a kitchen appliance used for cooking food