noun.
A chamber or enclosed compartment for heating, baking, or roasting food, as in a stove, or for firing, baking, hardening, or drying objects, as in a kiln.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
In bacteriology, a compartment which can be heated and maintained at a temperature sufficient to sterilize glassware and various bacteriological apparatus. Also hot-air sterilizer.
To bake in an oven.
To inclose; muffle up in an oven.
noun.
A chamber or receptacle in which food is cooked by the heat radiated from the walls, roof, or floor.
noun.
In general, any inclosed chamber adapted to or used for applying heat to raw materials or to articles in process of manufacture.
noun.
A furnace.
noun.
An oven-bird or its nest.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
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.