Definition of Stoving

1. drying paint with heat quickly [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoving

stoveless
stovelike
stovepipe
stovepipe hat
stovepipe iron
stovepiped
stovepipes
stovepiping
stover
stovers
stoves
stoveside
stovetop
stovetops
stovies
stoving (current term)
stovings
stow
stow away
stowable
stowage
stowages
stowaway
stowaways
stowboard
stowboards
stowce
stowces
stowdown
stowdowns

Literary usage of Stoving

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dangerous Trades: The Historical, Social, and Legal Aspects of Industrial by Thomas Oliver (1902)
"The question of whether blanket stoving with brimstone is a dangerous trade or not was answered in the negative by the Commissioners appointed by Mr Asquith ..."

2. The Journal of Science and the Arts by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1818)
"To derive the full advantage in these respects, from the operation of stoving, the goods must be exposed to the vapour of burning sulphur in a moistened ..."

3. Laboratory Manual of Dyeing and Textile Chemistry by Joseph Merritt Matthews (1909)
"Fastness to stoving. — Sometimes it is necessary to bleach woolen pieces containing white and colored yarns woven together in order to clear up the white ..."

4. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Warren Kendall Lewis (1916)
"... generally used is sulphur dioxide, or its solution in water as sulphurous acid. It is almost always used as gas, and the operation is called " stoving," ..."

5. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Warren Kendall Lewis (1916)
"... generally used is sulphur dioxide, or its solution in water as sulphurous acid. It is almost always used as gas, and the operation is called " stoving," ..."

6. The Chemical Aspects of Silk Manufacture by Robert Livingston Fernbach (1910)
"The treatment of silk by stoving is now practically obsolete. The silk skeins, dampened to the requisite degree, were hung on poles in a chamber which ..."

7. The London Medical Gazette (1833)
"The hot water is economized for warming fresh brine, and the surplus heat of the flues is saved in the stoving-house, for drying the manufactured salt. ..."

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