Also 7 stoove. [f. STOVE sb.1 Cf. Du. stoven, which may be partly the source.]
† 1. 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 sb.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. 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, Hygëia, V. 15. Mistaken medical opinions … induced physicians to stove their patients … in hot, close rooms.
5. 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. sb.].
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.
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. Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, ii. 44. Pigeons stoved.
1867. J. K. Hunter, Retrosp. Artist’s Life, xviii. (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. 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., Nov., 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. Sarah Lady Lyttelton, Corr. (1912), 53. The house is so well stoved and fired it is quite a delightful temperature.
