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.
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.
STOVEHOUSE
Stove"house`, n.
Defn: A hothouse.
STOVEPIPE
Stove"pipe`, n.
Defn: Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, — used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue. Stovepipe hat, the common tall silk hat. [Slang, U.S.]
STOVER Sto"ver, n. Etym: [OE. estoveir, estovoir, necessity, provisions, properly an inf., "to be necessary." Cf. Estovers.]
Defn: Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
Where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatched with stover them
to keep. Shak.
Thresh barley as yet but as need shall require, Fresh threshed for
stover thy cattle desire. Tusser.