The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hydrocarbon \Hy`dro*car"bon\, n. [Hydro-, 2 + carbon.] (Chem.)
   A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane,
   benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.
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   Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace,
      or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stave \Stave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Staved (st[=a]vd) or
   Stove (st[=o]v); 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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stove \Stove\ (st[=o]v),
   imp. of Stave.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stove \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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stove \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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stove
    n 1: a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was
         already on the stove" [syn: stove, kitchen stove,
         range, kitchen range, cooking stove]
    2: any heating apparatus