n. A room, chamber, or house artificially warmed. [Obsolete except in the specific uses , , below.]n. Specifically— In horticulture, a glazed and artificially heated building for the culture of tender plants: the same as a greenhouse or hot house, except that the stove maintains a higher temperature—not lower than 60° F. See greenhouse, hothouse, and dry-stove.n. A drying-chamber, as for plants, extracts, conserves, etc.; also, a highly heated drying-room, used in various manufactures.n. A place for taking either liquid or vapor baths; a bath-house or bath-room.n. A closed or partly closed vessel or receiver in which fuel is burned, the radiated heat being utilized for warming a room or for cooking.n. In coram., a pottery-kiln.n. In a furnace, the oven in which the blast is heated.n. In bookbinding, an apparatus with which the finisher heats his tools, formerly made to burn charcoal, but latterly gas.n. to a kind of fireplace with back and sides of ironwork and some arrangement for heating the air in chambers which communicate with the room.To heat in a stove or heated room; expose to moderate heat in a vessel.To heat in or as in a stove: as, to stove feathers; to stove printed fabrics (to fix the color); to stove ropes (to make them pliable); to stove timber.In vinegar-manuf., to expose (malt-wash, etc.) in casks to artificial heat in a close room, in order to induce acetous fermentation.In ceramics, to expose to a low heat. See pottery, porcelain, and kiln.To cook in a close vessel; stew.To shut up, as in a stove; inclose; confine.Preterit and past participle of stave.n. A chamber in which hides are dehaired.n. A stove having a tank or reservoir for hot water.In wool-bleaching, to expose (woolen yarn or cloth) in a dampened condition to the fumes of burning sulphur, and hence to the action of sulphurous acid, in a closed, usually wooden, building. The same treatment is sometimes applied to silk.
