A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a stove for cooking, especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. [ OF. estoveir, estovoir, necessary, necessity, need, prop. an infin. meaning to suit, be fit, be necessary. See Stover. ] (Law) Necessaries or supplies; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony out of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Common of estovers. See under Common, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; -- now applied to other varieties of open stoves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stove that burns oil (such as kerosine) for heating or cooking.
Syn. -- oil-heater, oil heater, kerosene heater, kerosine heater. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

imp. of Stave. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ PJC ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hothouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stovepipe hat, A tall silk hat with a brim, worn commonly as an item of formal dress by gentlemen in the late 1800's. [ Slang, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ OE. estoveir, estovoir, necessity, provisions, properly an inf., “to be necessary.” Cf. Estovers. ] Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where live nibbling sheep,
And flat meads thatched with stover them to keep. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thresh barley as yet but as need shall require,
Fresh threshed for stover thy cattle desire. Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]