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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stave \Stave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Staved}or {Stove}; p. pr & vb n. {Staving}.] [From {Stave}, n., or {Staff}, n.] 1. To break in a stave or the staves of to break a hole in to burst; -- often with in as to stave a cask; to stave in a boat. 2. To push as with a staff; -- with off The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance. --South. 3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away -- usually with off as to stave off the execution of a project. And answered with such craft as women use Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance That breaks upon them perilously. --Tennyson. 4. To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask. All the wine in the city has been staved. --Sandys. 5. To furnish with staves or rundles. --Knolles. 6. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run. {To stave and tail}, in bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to hold back the dog by the tail. --Nares. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stove \Stove\, imp. of {Stave}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stove \Stove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stoved}; p. pr & vb n. {Stoving}.] 1. To keep warm, in a house or room by artificial heat; as to stove orange trees. --Bacon. 2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as to stove feathers. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hydrocarbon \Hy`dro*car"bon\, n. [Hydro-, 2 + carbon.] (Chem.) A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also by extension, any of their derivatives. {Hydrocarbon burner}, {furnace}, {stove}, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: stove n 1: a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove" [syn: {kitchen stove}, {range}, {kitchen range}, {cooking stove}] 2: any heating apparatus
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