stove
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Is stove a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (chiefly UK) A hothouse (heated greenhouse).Examples: "There existed only one specimen of this sacred tree in all Mexico, at least to the knowledge of the Mexicans; […] In spite, however, of the firmest convictions of the indivisibility of this tree — the Manitas, as it is commonly called — it has been propagated by cuttings, some of which are at this moment thriving in some of the larger stoves of our modern collectors."; "Let but these facts lie contrasted with the treatment they usually receive in the stoves of this country, and the reason why they never grow to any considerable size, attain to any degree of perfection, or flourish to any extent […]"UK
2. (dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.Examples: "April 1, 1634, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, letter to the Lord Deputy When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the Parlour or Stove being near emptied, in came a Company of Musketeers."; "How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!"dated
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To heat or dry, as in a stove.Examples: "to stove feathers"; "The wide use of amine-cured epoxy paints is mostly due to their providing many of the properties of stoved epoxy films from an ambient temperature-cured system."transitive
2. (transitive) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.Examples: "to stove orange trees"; "orange-trees , lemon-trees , and myrtles , if they be stoved"transitive
3. (transitive) To jam; to sprain.Examples: "to stove a finger"transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary