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   Stave, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Staved (stāvd) or Stove (stōv); p. pr. & vb. n. Staving.] [From Stave, n., or Staff, n.]
   1. To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, “to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.”
   
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   2. To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
   
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   The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance. South.
   
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   3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, “to stave off the execution of a project”.
   
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   And answered with such craft as women use,
   
   Guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance
   
   That breaks upon them perilously. Tennyson.
   
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   4. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
   
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   All the wine in the city has been staved. Sandys.
   
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   5. To furnish with staves or rundles.  Knolles.
   
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   6. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, “to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run”.
   
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   To stave and tail, in bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to hold back the dog by the tail. Nares.
   
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   Stove (stōv), imp. of Stave.
   
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   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.
   
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   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.
   
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   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.
   
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   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.
   
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   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.
   
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   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.
   
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   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.
   
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   2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, “to stove feathers”.
   
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