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kitchen |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Kitchen \Kitch"en\ (k[i^]ch"[e^]n), n. [OE. kichen, kichene kuchene AS cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr coquere to cook. See {Cook} to prepare food, and cf {Cuisine}.] 1. A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery. Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. --Dryden. A fat kitchen makes a lean will --Franklin. 2. A utensil for roasting meat; as a tin kitchen. {Kitchen garden}. See under {Garden}. {Kitchen lee}, dirty soapsuds. [Obs.] ``A brazen tub of kitchen lee.'' --Ford. {Kitchen stuff}, fat collected from pots and pans. --Donne. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Kitchen \Kitch"en\, v. t. To furnish food to to entertain with the fare of the kitchen. [Obs.] --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: kitchen n : a room equipped for preparing meals
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