Hypertext Webster Gateway: "kitchen"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Kitchen \Kitch"en\ (k[i^]ch"[e^]n), 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 cookroom; the room of a house 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Kitchen \Kitch"en\, v. t.
To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the
kitchen. [Obs.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
kitchen
n : a room equipped for preparing meals
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