\Stove\,
imp. of {Stave}.

\Stove\, 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.
         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.
         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.
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.
{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.

\Stove\, 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.
2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.