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Stove plant
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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3. Hence, in modern dwellings: An appliance having a top
surface with fittings suitable for heating pots and pans
for cooking, frying, or boiling food, most commonly heated
by gas or electricity, and often combined with an oven in
a single unit; a cooking stove. Such units commonly have
two to six heating surfaces, called burners, even if they
are heated by electricity rather than a gas flame.
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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.
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