Stove

stōv, n. an apparatus with a fire for warming a room, cooking, .: a pottery-kiln: an oven for heating the blast of a blast-furnace: a drying-room.— v.t. to heat or keep warm.— ns. Stove′-pipe , a metal pipe for carrying smoke from a stove to a chimney-flue; Stove′pipe-hat , a high silk hat; Stove′-plant , a plant cultivated in a stove; Stove′-plate , a lid or plate covering one of the holes in a cooking-stove. [A.S. stofa ; Ger. stube .]