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. [ From Igor Kurchatov, a Russian scientist who worked on the atomic bomb. ] A transuranic element of atomic number 104, symbol Ku; also called rutherfordium, symbol Rf. It is produced in very small quantities by nuclear reactions. In November 1993 the nomenclature committe of the American Chemical Society approved the name rutherfordium for element 104. Russsian investigators who claim to have first discovered element 104, isotope 260 (half-life 0.3 seconds) in 1964 at Dubna proposed the name kurchatovium. However, investigators at Berkely in 1969 produced several isotopes of element 104 but were unable to produce isotope 260; they reported finding isotope 257, with a half-life of 4-5 seconds, isotope 259 with a half-life of 3-4 seconds, and isotope 258 with a shorter half-life.
Syn. -- rutherfordium, Rf, Ku, unnilquadium, Unq, element 104, atomic number 104. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. 1. not used up; remaining after use of part; as, unusable leftover auto parts.
Syn. -- left over(predicate), left(predicate), odd, remaining, unexpended. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Specifically: remaining from a previous meal; -- of food; as, leftover food served at a later meal.
Syn. -- cooked-over, warmed-over, reheated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An unused part or portion; -- used especially of food remaining uneaten from a previous meal; as, to have leftovers for dinner.
Syn. -- remnant. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A type of reflecting telescope in which the aberration of the concave mirror is reduced by a meniscus lens. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a city in the European part of Soviet Russia.
Syn. -- Perm. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A home-made incendiary device consisting of a bottle filled with gasoline, and a cloth wick. The wick is lighted, and the bottle thrown at a target, such as a vehicle, where it may shatter and spread intense flames over the vehicle, destroying or damaging it. [ PJC ]

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 ]

a. (Optics) Of certain achromatic lenses, having the same focus for the actinic and for the brightest of the visual rays. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Protovertebræ . [ Proto- + vertebra. ] (Anat.) One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. See Illust. of Ectoderm. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The protovertebræ were long regarded as rudiments of the permanent vertebræ, but they are now known to give rise to the dorsal muscles and other structures as well as the vertebral column. See Myotome. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the protovertebræ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the vagina. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

{ n. Also }. [ Stove (a translation of the name of the discoverer, Fourneau + -in, -ine. ] (Pharm.) A substance, C14H22O2NCl, the hydrochloride of an amino compound containing benzol, used, in solution with strychnine, as a local anaesthetic, esp. by injection into the sheath of the spinal cord, producing anaesthesia below the point of introduction. Called also amylocaine hydrochloride. Chemically it is the hydrochloride of the benzoyl ester of 1-(dimethylaminomethyl)-1-methyl propanol. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n.; pl. Tritova [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; third + L. ovum egg. ] (Zool.) An embryonic insect which has twice cast its skin previous to hatching from the egg. [ 1913 Webster ]