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masonry. Stoves may be classified according to the fuel burned (see HEATING). The word was originally of wider meaning and was used of a heated room, house or chamber, thus the O. Eng. stela glosses balneum, and mod. Ger. Slube and See also:

Dan. slue mean merely a room, O. H. Ger. Stubd, Stupa being used of a heated bathroom; See also:

early Du. stove also was used in this wider sense, the later See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form See also:

STOOL

stool is used as in See also:

MODERN

modern See also:

ENGLISH

English, and this may be the immediate source of the See also:

PRESENT

present meaning, the early word having been lost. Romanic See also:

LANGUAGES

languages borrowed it, e.g. Ital. stufa, Fr. etuve, O.

Fr. estuve, whence was adapted Eng. " stew," properly a See also:

bath or hothouse, used chiefly in plural " stews," a brothel, and " to stew," originally to bathe, then to See also:

BOIL

boil slowly, and as a noun, a See also:

MESS (an adaptation of O. Fr. mes, mod. mets; Ital. messo; derived from the Late Lat. missum, past participle of mittere " to send or place in position ")

mess of stewed See also:

MEAT

meat. " Stew," a See also:

fish-See also:

pond, is a See also:

Low See also:

German word stouwe, See also:

dam, See also:

weir, fish-pond, from stouwen, to dam up, cf. Ger. stauen, Eng. See also:

STOW, JOHN (c. 1525-1605)

stow.

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