kitchen

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: OE. kichen, kichene, kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine.

1. A room equipped for cooking food; the room of a house, restaurant, or other building appropriated to cookery.

Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot.— John Dryden

A fat kitchen makes a lean will.— Benjamin Franklin

2. A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen.

3. The staff that works in a kitchen.

Kitchen garden. See under Garden. — Kitchen lee, dirty soapsuds. obsolete “A brazen tub of kitchen lee.” John Ford — Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans. John Donne

To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen. obsolete William Shakespeare

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors