Thy dangerous stoutness; for I mock at death
With as big heart as thou.
Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act iii. sc. 2.
Stove. This word, which was probably introduced from Holland, has much narrowed its meaning. Bath, hothouse, any room where air or water was artificially heated, was a ‘stove’ once.
When a certain Frenchman came to visit Melanchthon, he found him in his stove, with one hand dandling his child in the swaddling-clouts, and the other holding a book and reading it.—Fuller, Holy State, b. ii. c. 9.
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, Anatomy of Melancholy, part i. sect. 2.
When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlour or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers, shot every one his man, and so proceeded to an apothecary’s house, where Wallenstein lay.—Letters and Despatches of Thomas Earl of Strafford, vol. i. p. 226.
Street. This, one of the words which the Romans left behind them when they quitted Britain, and which the Saxons learned from the Britons, is more properly a road or causeway (‘via strata’) than a street, in our present sense of the word; and as late as Coverdale was so used.
For they soughte them thorow every strete, and yet they founde them not.—Josh. ii. 22. Coverdale.
But when one sawe that all the people stode there still, he removed Amasa from the strete unto the felde.—1 Sam. xx. 12. Coverdale.