| Oven (n.) 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. Thesaurus Entries Seger cone, Torrid Zone, acid kiln, brickkiln, cement kiln, enamel kiln, equator, furnace, hell, inferno, kiln, limekiln, muffle kiln, pyrometer, pyrometric cone, reverberatory, reverberatory kiln, steam bath, stove, subtropics, tropics |