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Webster 1913 Edition


Kitchen

Kitch′en

(kĭch′ĕn)
,
Noun.
[OE.
kichen
,
kichene
,
kuchene
, AS.
cycene
, L.
coquina
, equiv. to
culina
a kitchen, fr.
coquinus
pertaining to cooking, fr.
coquere
to cook. See
Cook
to prepare food, and cf.
Cuisine
.]
1.
A room equipped for cooking food; the room of a house, restaurant, or other building appropriated to cookery.
Cool was his
kitchen
, though his brains were hot.
Dryden.
A fat
kitchen
makes a lean will.
Franklin.
2.
A utensil for roasting meat;
as, a tin
kitchen
.
Kitchen garden
.
See under
Garden
.
–
Kitchen lee
,
dirty soapsuds.
[Obs.]
“A brazen tub of kitchen lee.”
Ford.
–
Kitchen stuff
,
fat collected from pots and pans.
Donne.

Kitch′en

,
Verb.
T.
To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Kitchen

KITCH'EN

,
Noun.
[L. coquina; from the root of L. coquo, to cook.]
1.
A cook-room; the room of a house appropriated to cookery.
A fat kitchen makes a lean will.
2.
In ships, the galley or caboose.
3.
A utensil for roasting meat; as a tin kitchen.