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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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346 words match “OVEN”

A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting.

OVENBIRD n. 3 definitions

ed to the creepers. They inhabit South America and the West Indies, and construct curious oven-shaped nests.

ASH-FURNACE; ASH-OVEN n.

A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.

from Cleave, v. t. To show the cloven foot or hoof, to reveal a devilish character, or betray an evil purpose, notwithstanding disguises, -- Satan being represented dramatically and symbolically as having cloven hoofs.

CLOVEN-FOOTED; CLOVEN-HOOFED a.

Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox.

Fit; proper; suitable. [Obs.] "A covenable day." Wyclif (Mark vi. 21).

Fitly; suitably. [Obs.] "Well and covenably." Chaucer.

COVENANT n. 8 definitions

parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant. 1 Sam. xviiii. 3. Let there be covenants drawn between us. Shak. If we conclude a peace, It shall be with such strict and severe covenants As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby. Shak.

The person in whose favor a covenant is made.

COVENANTER n. 2 definitions

One who makes a covenant.

Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters. Be they covenanting traitors, Or the brood of false Argyle Aytoun.

The party who makes a covenant. Burrill.

See Covinous, and Covin.

A convent or monastery. [Obs.] Bale. Covent Garden, a large square in London, so called because originally it was the garden of a monastery.

A town in the county of Warwick, England. To send to Coventry, to exclude from society; to shut out from social intercourse, as for ungentlemanly conduct. -- Coventry blue, blue thread of a superior dye, made at Coventry, England, and used for embroidery.

To dissolve covenant with.

DORSOVENTRAL a.

From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.

of Drive. [Obs.]

An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glaze kiln, or glaze.

HOOVEN; HOVEN a.

Affected with hoove; as, hooven, or hoven, cattle.