Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
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.
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.
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.
{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.
Source : WordNet®
cooking stove
n : a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was
already on the stove" [syn: {stove}, {kitchen stove}, {range},
{kitchen range}]