Word Meanings - STOVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

imp. of Stave.

STAVEWOOD
A tall tree growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.
STAVES
pl. of Staff. "Banners, scarves and staves." R. Browning. Also
STAVESACRE
A kind of larkspur , and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. They are used as a parasiticide, and in the East for poisoning fish.
STAVE
The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff. Stave jointer, a machine for dressing the edges of staves. (more info) 1. One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow
PALSTAVE
A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age. Dawkins.