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.