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Available Definitions:
1) - imp. of Stave.
2) n. - 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.
3) n. - 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.
4) v. t. - To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.
5) v. t. - To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
6) n. - To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
7) n. - To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
8) n. - To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
9) n. - To furnish with staves or rundles.
10) n. - 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.
11) v. i. - To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
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