▪ I. stove, n.1
(stəʊv)
Forms: 6 stofe, stouf(fe, stowf(f)e, 6–7 stoave, stoove, 7 stouph(e, stouve, 5– stove. See also stow n.3
[OE. had stofa wk. masc., hot air bath (once, as gloss on balneum), and the related stuf-bæð (Leechdoms III. 92, 132) in the same sense. The word, however, seems not to have survived, but to have been taken up afresh in the 15–16th c. from MLG. or MDu. stove fem. (Du. stoof) = OHG. stuba fem. (MHG. stube heated room, mod.G. stube sitting-room), ON. stofa, stufa fem. (Sw. stufva, stuga cottage, Da. stue room); the Scandinavian words are prob. adopted from LG. The relation between the WGer. *stuƀ- and the late L. or Rom. stūfa, stūfāre (see stew n.2 and v.2, stufe) is uncertain.]
† 1. a. A hot air bath; a sweating-room; = stew n.2 3, stufe. Obs.
In the second quot. the pl. is used with sing. construction.
| 1456 Sir G. Haye Gov. Princes Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 142 Here declaris the noble the maneris of baithis and of stovis. Ibid. 143 Thare mon be grete consideracioun to make wele a bathis or a stovis. 1562 W. Bullein Bulwark, Bk. Sick Men (1579) 24 b, Idle bodies..are made warme, by..Oyle, bathing in warme water, or going into y⊇ Stoue. 1579 J. Louthe in Narr. Reform. (Camden) 58 This was to hym in stede of a stowffe called Laconicum. 1579–80 North Plutarch, Cimon (1595) 525 As they were rubbing of him with oile in his stooue or hotte house. 1587 Harrison England ii. x. 187/2 in Holinshed, As for stooues we haue not hitherto vsed them greatlie, yet doo they now begin to be made in diuerse houses of the gentrie.., who build them not to worke and feed in as in Germanie and else where, but now and then to sweat in. 1595 Duncan App. Etym. (E.D.S.), Vaporarium, a hot stofe. 1599 B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iv. viii, You shall sweat there with..losing your monie at primero, as well as in all the stoves in Sweden. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 864 Neither used they the stouph or bath together. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts 517 The dung..of mice..rubbed vpon the head of any one who is troubled with the scurfe or skaules thereon in a bath or stoue, will presently expell and driue them quite away. 1612 Drayton Poly-olb. iv. 304 The Pentecosts prepar'd at Carleon in his Court,..her Temples and her Groues, Her Palaces, her Walks, Baths, Theaters, and Stoues. 1629 H. Burton Truths Tri. 293 That riuer in hell..is now become a hot dry stoue, called Purgatory. 1658 W. Burton Comment. Itin. Antoninus 213 This I guess to be a Stouphe or hot-house to bath in. 1683 Digby's Chym. Secr. ii. 200 When the Patient is Sweating in the dry Stove. a 1700 Evelyn Diary 8 Feb. 1645, Neere to this cave are the natural stoves of St. Germain. 1715 Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 101 A lukewarm Room..from which they enter'd into the hot stove. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 230 You may have..more or less vapor..which can not be done in the common suffocating stoves at the Hummums. |
† b. A closed basket for ‘stoving’ or sweating a gamecock.
Obs.| 1631 Markham Country Contentm. i. xix. (ed. 4) 111 You must haue deepe straw baskets made for the purpose,..and there let your Cocke stoue and sweate till the Euening. But before you put him into the stoue, you shall [etc.]. |
† 2. A sitting-room or bedroom heated with a furnace. Chiefly with reference to Germany, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, or Russia. (
Cf. stew n.2 2.)
Obs.| ? 1545 Brinklow Complaynt 36 b, Euen the porest man..may boldly come into their hall or stoue, thei being at dynar. 1559 Morwyng Evonym. 70 Certaine of the Germaines that lyve in stouffes, that is hot houses, the winter time, make in them lowe fornaices. 1600 Hakluyt Voy. III. 392 Here they found houses of foure stories high,..and in most of them were Stooues for the Winter season. a 1608 Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 212 In the excellent little Stove, or Study of D. Hageck his house lent me, by Bethlem in old Prage. 1617 Moryson Itin. iii. 77 (bis) In stead of fier they vse hot stoues.., which are certaine chambers or roomes, hauing an earthen ouen cast into them. Ibid. 103 All the passengers lie together in the warme stoaue, with those of the Family, both Men and Weomen. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. v. (1624) 136 How tedious is it to them that liue in Stoues & Caues halfe a yeare together; as in Island, Muscovy, or vnder the Pole it selfe. 1634 W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. (1898) 68 Hee busles better through a world of cold in a frost-paved wildernesse, than the furred Citizen in his warmer Stoave. 1642 Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. ix. 86 When a certain Frenchman came to visit Melanchthon, he found him in his stove with one hand dandling his child.., and in the other hand holding a book. a 1700 Evelyn Diary 23 Sept. 1680, All the inhabitants retiring to their stoves. 1706 Farquhar Recruiting Officer iii. ii, I might have marry'd a German Princess, worth fifty thousand Crowns a Year, but her Stove disgusted me. |
3. A hothouse for plants.
| 1695 Phil. Trans. XIX. 395 A new black Maiden Hair..now growing in his Majesty's Stoves at Hampton Court. 1739 P. Miller Gard. Dict. II. 5 B 2 b, A Catalogue of such Plants as should be placed in a Stove. 1793 R. Steele Ess. Gardening 115 A General Stove, 160 feet in length, and of proper width and height, is capable of containing a prodigious collection of plants. 1804 C. Smith Conversations, etc. I. 65 In the stove the natives of the torrid zone; in the conservatory the inhabitants of milder regions. 1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipelago (1890) 85 In our stoves these varied conditions can be supplied to each individual plant. 1895 Amherst Gardening 282 The climbing plants which adorned the stove. |
4. A heated chamber or box for some special purpose.
| 1640 T. Brugis Marrow of Physicke ii. 142 So set your Plate in a warme Stove, or Oven. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Stove... Among Confectioners, it is a little Closet well stopt up on all Sides; where there are several stories or rows of Shelves, one above another, made of Wires, to hold the Sweet-meats that are to be dried. 1769 Mrs. Raffald Engl. Housekpr. (1778) 245 When they are cold take them out and lay them on glasses, put them into a stove, and turn them every half hour. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. V. 168 The artifical method of hatching chickens in stoves, as is practised at Grand Cairo. 1811 A. T. Thomson Lond. Disp. (1818) 241 They are..killed by the steams of boiling vinegar, and dried either by the sun or in a stove. 1835 Ure Phil. Manuf. 146 When all the wool is gathered on the teeth, the comb is placed with its points in the stove. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 660 A stove, is a kind of kiln for warping timber in. 1881 Raymond Mining Gloss., Stove, the oven in which the blast of a furnace is heated. 1885 J. J. Hummel Dyeing Textile Fabrics 112 The sulphur stove—a spacious brick chamber which can be charged with sulphur dioxide. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 969 The drawing or emptying of ‘stoves’ is regarded as the most dangerous part of white-lead making. |
5. An apparatus for heating (
orig., for heating a ‘stove’ in sense 1 or 2).
Cf. stew n.2 1 b.
a. A closed box or vessel of earthenware, porcelain, or (now more usually) of metal, portable or fixed, in which heat is produced either by combustion of fuel or electrically, for use in warming rooms, cooking, etc.
Often with defining word, indicating the purpose for which the stove is used, as in
cooking stove, or the kind of fuel employed, as
anthracite stove,
coal stove,
gas stove,
oil stove.
Quots. 1562 and 1591
perh. do not belong to this sense.
| [1562 W. Bullein Bulwark, Bk. Sick Men (1579) 6 Make a fyer of Charcoales, or a stoue, which is a fyer secret felt, but not seene. 1591 G. Fletcher Russe Commw. ii. 4 In the extremitie of winter, if you holde a pewter dishe..in your hand..(except in some chamber where their warme stoaues bee) your fingers will friese faste vnto it.] a 1618 Rates of Merchandizes H 4, Iron Stoues the peece, xl.s. 1623 T. Adams Barren Tree 4 A Candle is made to light vs, not to heate vs: a Stoue is made to heate vs, not to light vs. 1624 in Archæologia XLVIII. 138 In your closet a litle chare, the marble morter, the stove, your owne cabinet and bookes, a target, [etc.]. 1642 Fuller Holy & Prof. St. i. xii. 39 Though there be no fire seen outwardly, as in the English chymnies, it may be hotter within, as in the Dutch stoves. 1691 J. Gibson in Archæologia XII. 181 In one of the lesser gardens is a large green house divided into several rooms, and all of them with stoves under them, and fire to keep a continual heat. 1693 Evelyn De La Quint. Compl. Gard., Cult. Orange⁓trees 21 The Heat of Char-coal..in some hidden Stove, or Earthen Pan. 1702 S. Sewall Diary 16 Jan., A good fire in the stove warm'd the room. 1715 Lond. Gaz. No. 5325/4 Stoves fix'd to the Chimneys. 1735 Dyche & Pardon Dict., Stove, a small close Fire, sometimes used for drying Sugars, Sweet-meats, &c. 1747 H. Glasse Cookery ii. 26 Do it over a Stove or slow Fire till the Rice begins to be thick. 1816 T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall viii, With pick⁓axes and gunpowder, a hanging stove and a poker. 1833 J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 173 The close fire-places, or stoves properly so called, the principle of which is the emission of hot air. 1853 A. Soyer Pantroph. 248 Place them on the stove or gridiron, and you will, by these means, obtain a delicate and tempting dish. 1853 Mrs. Moodie Life in Clearings 373, I have seen the grandmother in a wealthy family ironing the fine linen, or broiling over the cook-stove. 1854 Ronalds & Richardson Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 216 Chamber stoves are constructed to disseminate heat by the direct contact of air with the heated surface, which is obtained by burning fuel on a grate, closely surrounded on all sides except below the bars, by a good conducting or absorbing material. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educ. II. 395/1 On the Continent..the..scarcity of fuel..early led to the introduction of the hot-air stove. 1909 Mission Field June 60 There is at present no heating system of any kind in the school beyond the old-fashioned stoves in each room. |
b. Applied to the metal structure of a more or less open fireplace; a ‘grate’.
This use, common in England, appears to be unknown in the
U.S.| a 1756 E. Haywood New Present (1771) 252 To rub the stove and fire-irons. 1794 Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho x, On the next morning Emily ordered a fire to be lighted in the stove of the chamber where St. Aubert used to sleep. 1817 W. Beloe Sexagenarian II. 143 He would..offend the delicacy of his hostess by contaminating..the brightness of her stoves.. with the distillations of tobacco. 1848 Dickens Dombey viii, An empty room..made ghastly by a ragged fireplace without any stove in it. 1861 T. L. Peacock Gryll Gr. xxii, It would not suit the stoves of our modern saloons. |
† c. Naut. (See
quot.)
Obs.| 1750 T. R. Blanckley Nav. Expositor, Stoves are square Boxes made of Plank filled with Bricks, and when fitted with an Iron Ring and small Bars, are for burning Charcoal, in order for the Cook to dress the Admiral's or Captain's Victuals on. |
d. A foot-warmer containing burning charcoal, such as is used in the Low Countries [
Du. stoof].
| 1716 Gay Trivia ii. 338 The Belgian stove beneath her Footstool glows. 1883 Olive Schreiner Afr. Farm i. v, Under her feet was a wooden stove. |
6. attrib. and
Comb.: in sense 2, as
† stove-window; in sense 3, as
stove-flower,
stove-heat,
stove-plant,
stove-shrub,
stove-thermometer; in sense 4, as
stove-dry vb., whence
stove-dried adj.; in sense 5, as
stove-brush,
stove-chimney,
stove-coal,
stove-door,
stove-fitter,
stove-fitting,
stove-grating,
stove-lid (
U.S.),
stove-maker,
stove-manufacturer,
stove-oven,
stove-piping,
stove-setter,
stove-setting,
stove-tile,
stove-wood (
U.S.);
stove-heated,
stove-warmed adjs.;
stove enamel, a vitreous enamel that is sufficiently heat-resistant to be used on stoves; hence
stove-enamelled a.,
stove-enamelling;
† stove-fire (see
quot. 1769);
stove-glass (see
quot.);
stove-grate, (
a)
= sense 5 b; (
b) see
quot. 1875;
stove-house = sense 3;
stove lifter N. Amer.: see
lifter 2 a;
stove-polish, black lead or other substance used for polishing stoves;
† stove-pot (see
quot. for
stove-fire);
stove-room,
† (
a)
= sense 2; (
b)
= sense 4;
stove-truck (see
quot.);
stove-tub = sense 4.
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Stove-brush, a housemaid's polishing-brush, for blackening or shining a grate. |
| 1730 Inventory R. Woolley's Goods (1732) 8 A *Stove Chimney. 1736 Ainsworth Eng.-Lat. Dict., A blower (in a stove chimney) ferreum ignis suscitabulum. |
| 1881 Raymond Mining Gloss., *Stove-coal. 1895 Daily News 15 Oct. 3/5 Stove coal 15s. |
| 1868 Rep. Munitions of War 188 Having a door resembling an ordinary *stove-door. |
| 1766 Complete Farmer s.v. Moth, As this corn (which had not been *stove-dried) was old and dry enough, it was but seldom ventilated. |
| 1752 Gentl. Mag. XXII. 348 (Porcelain) Rooms for throwing, turning, and *stove drying the ware. |
| 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 11/1 *Stove enamel polishing paste..tin, 0/2. 1949 Kirk & Othmer Encycl. Chem. Technol. IV. 165 White baking finishes may be classified in four general types: (1) kitchen-cabinet enamels, (2) refrigerator finishes, (3) washing-machine finishes, and (4) stove enamels... Stove enamels are intended for use on the trimmings for stoves... A maximum temperature of 200°F is encountered. 1958 Observer 13 Apr. 10/2 A durable finish chromium rather than aluminium, and vitreous enamel..rather than stove enamel. |
| 1912 C. H. B. Quennell in L. Weaver House & its Equipment 103 A few years ago, and in the case of the cheaper ones to-day, baths were ‘*stove-enamelled’. 1977 Custom Car Nov. 85/1 (Advt.), 100E Jaguar IRS complete with crossmember, stove enamelled, all new parts. |
| 1939 Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XLIII. 607 It is desirable therefore, that in cases where *stove-enamelling treatments or other processes involving re-heating at elevated temperature have to be applied to duralium, [etc.]. |
| 1769 Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1805) Descr. Plate, The Plate is the design of three *stove-fires for the kitchen, that will burn coals or embers instead of charcoal..; the coals are burnt in cast iron pots,..CC Stove pots in which the fire is made. |
| 1903 Daily Record & Mail 22 Aug. 2 George Morrow..a *stovefitter. |
| 1870 Disraeli Lothair xxxi, She held..a vast bouquet entirely of white *stove flowers. |
| 1891 Century Dict. s.v. Glass, *Stove-glass, sheets of mica used in the fronts of stoves, etc. |
| 1730 Inventory R. Woolley's Goods (1732) 8 In the Dining-Room... A *Stove Grate. 1753 Hogarth Anal. Beauty viii. 43 Those branches fixt to the sides of common old-fashion'd stove-grates by way of ornament. 1841 in Inquiry, Yorks. Deaf & Dumb (1870) 26 Jos. Fellows, stove-grate fitter, Rotherham. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib. II. No. 5971 Wholesale ironmonger and stove-grate manufacturer. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 2412 Stove-grate, the grid or series of bars on which the fuel rests in a stove. |
| 1890 W. W. Merry in More Echoes Oxf. Mag. (1896) 96 By the *stove-grating I can see the stoker. |
| 1852 Gladstone Glean. IV. 184 The growth of those democratic principles which the present system is forcing with *stove-heat to maturity. 1894 C. L. Johnstone Canada 67 The heat of the stove-heated kitchen prevented me from sleeping. |
| 1860 Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. (1866) 178 Choice plants that I have been used to see fostered and tended in pots in our *stove-houses at home. |
| 1876 ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer i. 17 She could have seen through a pair of *stove lids just as well. 1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 318 ‘I came in here to burn them up’..I says, looking at him and opening the stove lid. |
| 1886 Harper's Mag. Nov. 835/1 We'll have a real egg and cinder flip with the hot *stove-lifter in it when we get back. 1927 M. de la Roche Jalna xxv. 306 She up and shied the stove lifter at my 'ead. |
| 1843 Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. VI. 422/2 This is a stigma on the *stove-makers of London. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Stove-maker, a founder and caster of stoves and ranges, for grates and fire-places. |
| 1843 Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. VI. 422/1 As a *stove manufacturer, I have [etc.]. |
| 1855 E. Acton Mod. Cookery (rev. ed.) ii. 70 Set the dish into a gentle oven... A *stove-oven, if the heat be properly moderated, will answer for the baking. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. 30/4 (Advt.), 4 Bedrooms, large family room. Fireplace! Walkout! Stove Oven! |
| 1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 219/2 A communication..made of one or more ranges of iron *stove-piping. 1901 J. Black's Carp. & Build., Home Handicr. 64 An old piece of stove-piping. |
| 1778 W. Cowper Let. 3 Dec. (1904) I. 151, I made Mr. Wrighte's gardener a present of fifty sorts of *stove plant seeds. 1812 New Botanic Gard. I. 10 A pleasing variety among other stove plants. 1842 Loudon Suburban Hort. 19 Hothouse plants, which may be either dry stove plants..or damp stove plants. |
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Stove-polish, black⁓lead. 1905 Daily Chron. 13 Apr. 5/3 The blacklead and stove-polish business. |
| 1769 *Stove-pots [see stove-fire]. |
| 1706 S. Sewall Diary 27 Feb. (1879) II. 155 Passing out of the *Stove-Room into the Kitchen. 1756–7 tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 239 Fowls here live in the same apartment or stove-room with the owners. 1825 Gentl. Mag. XCV. i. 163 He went into a stove-room, in which sulphur, hay, &c. were burning at the same time. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 473/1 Immediately behind him is the stove-room, in which the moulds are ranged on shelves. 1846 Dodd Brit. Manuf. VI. 181 Sail-making. Besides the bleach-field there is..a ‘stove-room’, in which the flax can be exposed to any required degree of temperature. |
| 1898 Daily News 18 June 9/4 Bricklaying, jobbing, drains, *stove setting, &c. |
| 1850 Florist 202 A handsome *stove-shrub. |
| 1786 Abercrombie Gard. Assist. 354 The proper degree of heat..may be determinable by a *stove thermometer. |
| 1860 Inventory Objects Mus. Ornamental Art, S. Kensington 51/1 German enamelled *stove tile; allegorical figure under an arcade.—Dated 1567. 1936 Burlington Mag. Sept. 111/1 The occurrence..on the jug of a relief corresponding to one on a green-glazed stove-tile. 1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Cont. Pott. & Porc. 269/2 Stoves and stove-tiles were made from the sixteenth until the eighteenth centuries, the earlier stove-tiles having flat surfaces with relief decorations and concave cylindrical backs. |
| 1875 Knight Dict. Mech., *Stove-truck, a truck employed in cannon-foundries for moving pieces of ordnance. |
| 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVII. 433/2 They should be stoved in a stove by the heat of a flue, and not in a baker's oven or a *stove tub. |
| 1911 Chamb. Jrnl. Sept. 566/2 Their wives have their duties in the close and *stove-warmed houses. |
| 1560 J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 164 Lookynge downe out of the *stowffe wyndowe into the courte vnderneth. 1680 R. L'Estrange Twenty Sel. Colloq. Erasm. 60 The Master of the Inn puts his head out of the Stove window. |
| 1867 D. R. Locke Swingin' round Cirkle 159, I held a stick of *stove wood suspended over his head. 1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 332 Then she..stacked stovewood into her crooked arm. 1972 News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) 30 Dec. 4/2 We don't hear much about stove wood [nowadays]. |
▪ II. stove, n.2 Sc. and
north. [Cf. stew n.3] A steam; a mist rising from the ground.
| 1513 Douglas æneis vii. Prol. 89 The callour air..Maid seik warm stovis. Ibid. xii. Prol. 46 Moich hailsum stovis ourheildand the slak. |
▪ III. stove, v.1 (
stəʊv)
Also 7
stoove.
[f. stove n.1 Cf. Du. stoven, which may be partly the source.] † 1. a. trans. To subject to a hot-air bath.
Obs.| 1456 Sir G. Hay Gov. Princes Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 143 Quhen the man suld stove him, he suld first entre the first chaumer, that is calde. |
† b. To sweat (a gamecock). Also
intr. of the cock: To undergo sweating.
Cf. stove n.1 1 b.
Obs.| 1631 Markham Country Contentm. i. xix. (ed. 4) 111 Then putting in your Cocke, couer him with sweete strawe vp to the top, and then lay on the lidde close, and there let your Cocke stoue and sweate till the Euening. 1686 R. Blome Gentl. Recr. ii. 279/2 Each time Stove and Scour him [the Cock] according to the nature of his Heats, long Heats requiring longer Stoving, as also greater Scouring. |
† 2. To keep up the heat of (fire).
Obs. rare—1.
| 1590 Greene Never too late i. (1600) E 2 b, As the minerals of ætna stoue fire,..so young yeeres are incident to the heate of loue. |
3. To put (plants) in a hothouse.
| 1625 Bacon Ess., Gardens ¶1 For December, and Ianuary, and the Latter Part of Nouember, you must take..Orenge-Trees; Lemon-Trees; and Mirtles, if they be stooued [v.r. stirred]. 1691 J. Gibson in Archæologia XII. 188 These more nice and curious plants, that need closer keeping are in warmer rooms, and some of them stoved when he thinks fit. 1851 B'ham & Midl. Gardeners' Mag. Aug. 140 Tulips,—These will, of course, be all dryed, cleaned, stoved, and in their places. |
† 4. To keep (persons) in heated rooms.
Obs.| 1627 Feltham Resolves i. xviii. (1628) 55 While the rich lye stoued in secure reposes. 1801 A. Young Autob. 6 June (1898) 364 Charming weather for the country,..and I am stoved up in this horrid place. 1802 Beddoes Hygeia v. 15 Mistaken medical opinions..induced physicians to stove their patients..in hot, close rooms. |
5. a. To dry in a stove or heated chamber:
Naut., to dry (ropes) in this manner to prepare them for tarring.
| a 1625 Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. MS. 2301). 1664–5 [see stoving vbl. n.]. 1736 J. Lewis I of Tenet (ed. 2) 39 Stow or Stove Ropes, to dry them in an Oven. 1794 Rigging & Seamanship I. 57 Stoving is placing of white rope in an iron stove or oven,..which makes the rope more limber..to receive the tar. 1851 Kipping Sailmaking (ed. 2) 45 Bolt ropes formerly were stoved in a stove, by the heat of a flue, and tarred afterwards. 1914 A. Deane Belfast Art Gall. & Museum (Quarterly Notes No. 26) 8 The [clay] pipes are then laid in the sun, if the weather permits, for partial drying, or stoved previous to heating in the kiln. |
b. To heat so as to fuse a coating to the object being coated. Also
absol., and
intr. (of the coating) for
pass.| 1951 Industrial Finishing IV. 184/1 Unless the article is suspended approximately equidistant from the emitting surfaces there will be a risk of it being unevenly stoved. 1954 Archit. Rev. CXVI. 132 The undersides of most metal deckings are ribbed, and the steel ones are usually finished with red oxide, ‘stoved’ on. 1962 D. W. Hislop in H. W. Chatfield Sci. Surface Coatings xviii. 531 A finish which stoves in half an hour at 150°C on sheet metal may require three times as long..at the same temperature when applied to a heavy casting. Ibid. 532 To be sure that a finish has been stoved adequately, a recording instrument is used with a thermocouple in contact with the painted metal. Ibid. 537 These lamps may be arranged in banks to give a high heating intensity. They enable paint films on suitable objects..to be stoved in times of a few seconds. 1977 Hot Car Oct. 73/1 It first etches and then stoves so that the finished coating (they say) is a really corrosion resistant lacquer around five times the thickness of factory wheel lacquer. 1979 J. D. Sandars et al. Man. Colour Matching 129 Apply 25–30 micron dry films to burnished degreased mild steel. Stove for appropriate times. |
6. To stew (meat or vegetables). Now
Sc. and
north.| 1738 Ochtertyre House Bk. (S.H.S.) 150 Dinner lambs head stoved. 1741 Compl. Family-Piece i. ii. 115 Stove it well in good Gravy one Hour, and send it whole to Table. 1747 H. Glasse Cookery ii. 44 Pigeons stoved. 1867 J. K. Hunter Retrosp. Artist's Life xvii. (1912) 178 Plenty of potatoes stoved with the broo made an excellent dinner. |
7. To fumigate with sulphur; to disinfect with sulphur or other fumes.
| 1805 J. Luccock Nat. Wool 171 The well-known mode of stoving cloth by the fumes of sulphur. 1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. ii. 73 The cloth was first bleached; the squares were printed by cylinder with a mordant of acetate of iron; then stoved; then passed through a caustic emulsion. 1915 Blackw. Mag. No. 589/2 All clothing, even if issued brand⁓new on the eve of departure from a hospital in France, has to be stoved when it reaches English soil. |
8. To heat (a building) with stoves; to provide with stoves.
rare.
| 1808 Lady S. Lyttelton Corr. (1912) 53 The house is so well stoved and fired it is quite a delightful temperature. |
▪ IV. † stove, v.2 Sc. Obs. [f. stove n.2] intr. Of smoke: To pass in clouds.
| 1756 M. Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitl. Club) 164 A long table where the carles smoak, so that, when a scoot passes, you see the smoak stoving out at the windows. |
▪ V. stove, v.3 (
stəʊv)
[f. stove, pa. pple. of stave v.] trans. = stave v. 2.
| 1820 J. Oxley Jrnls. Exped. N.S. Wales 17 The large boat had got stoved against a tree under water. 1883 Stevenson Treas. Isl. xx, I'll stove in your old blockhouse like a rum puncheon. Ibid., Drop shooting poor seamen, and stoving of their heads in while asleep. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 7 Dec. 5/1 And her bulwarks were stoved and washed away. |
▪ VI. stove, ppl. a. (
stəʊv)
[irreg. pa. pple. of stave v.] 1. Chiefly
Naut. That has been ‘stove in’. Also
stove-in.
| 1850 H. Melville White Jacket I. iv. 20 Eternally talking of line-tubs, Nantucket, spermoil, stove boats, and Japan. 1897 Kipling Capt. Cour. iv. 98 They found..a gin-bottle, and a stove-in dory, but nothing more. 1899 F. T. Bullen Idylls of Sea xvi. 124 One of the most frequent experiences in this perilous trade [whale-fishing] is that of a ‘stove’ boat. 1979 ‘A. Hall’ Scorpion Signal xix. 223 A stove-in radiator with rusty water blowing out of it. |
2. stove-up. Run-down, exhausted; worn out. Chiefly
pred. of persons.
N. Amer. slang.| 1901 A. C. Hegan Mrs Wiggs of Cabbage Patch ix. 127 If I was n't so stove up, an' nobody was n't lookin', I'd jes' skitter 'round this here yard like a colt! 1942 Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §129/12 Physically run-down,..stove-up. 1955 R. Hobson Nothing too Good for Cowboy xvi. 175 You look stove-up, boy, what's the trouble with that hind leg of yours? 1960 H. Lee To kill Mockingbird viii. 81 Mr. Avery'll be in bed for a week—he's right stove up. He's too old to do things like that. 1974 D. Sears Lark in Clear Air i. 18 An elderly man in levis and stove-up range-boots was..in the lower bunk. |
▪ VII. stove irreg. pa. tense and
pple. of
stave v.