kitchen

n. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fat kitchen makes a lean will. Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The staff that works in a kitchen. [ PJC ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kitchen servant; a cook. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Kitchen + -ette. ] A room combining a very small kitchen and a pantry, with the kitchen conveniences compactly arranged, sometimes so that they fold up out of sight and allow the kitchen to be made a part of the adjoining room by opening folding doors. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A woman employed in the kitchen. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. pl. [ Dan. kjök-kenmöddings kitchen leavings; cf. Scot. midden a dunghill. ] Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The body of servants employed in the kitchen; the staff of a kitchen. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]