[f. STOVE v.1 + -ED1.]
† 1. Of a fire: Kept burning in a stove. Obs.
1693. Evelyn, De La Quint. Compl. Gard., Direct. Melons, Advt. 4. It is certain, that a Naked or Stov’d Fire, pent up within the House,… must needs be extreamly Noxious and Pernicious to these Delicate and Tender Plants.
2. Sc. Of meat or vegetables: Stewed.
1728. Ramsay, Fables, Monk & Miller’s Wife, 133. The stov’d or roasted we afford Are aft great strangers on our board.
1756. Mrs. Calderwood, in Coltness Collect. (Maitl. Club), 149. All sorts of stewes or stoved things.
1867. J. K. Hunter, Retrosp. Artist’s Life, i. (1912), 10. She gave me my dinner of stoved potatoes wi’ lang green sybo tails on the tap o’ them.
3. Heated by a stove. Also, kept in a heated room.
1802. Beddoes, Hygëia, V. 60. The carpeted, stuccoed, and stoved sitting room.
a. 1835. McCulloch, Attributes (1837), III. xliii. 147. It is no trial to bring a caged and stoved animal from a hot climate and then to decide that it cannot live out of a stove.
4. Dried in a stove or oven. Stoved salt: see quot. 1892.
1800. Henry, Epit. Chem. (1808), 182. The various forms under which it [common salt] appears, of stoved salt, fishery salt, bay salt, &c. arise rather from differences in the size and compactness of the grain than [etc.].
1808. H. Holland, Agric. Cheshire, in W. H. Marshall, Rev. Rep. Agric. (1810), II. 93. In making the stoved, or lump salt, as it is called, the brine is brought to a boiling heat.
1852. J. Fincham, Ship Building, III. (ed. 3), 32. It was found that the stoved planks were fresher and tougher.
1880. Daily News, 28 Oct., 3/8. Sugar…. Stoved goods and Paris loaves continue firm.
1892. Labour Commission, Gloss., Stoved Salt, boiled salt drawn out of the pans, put into wooden moulds, and afterwards taken into the stoves or hot-houses for the purpose of being thoroughly dried. All table salt is stoved salt.
