Kitch"en (?), 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.
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Kitch"en, v. t.
To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen.
[Obs.]
Shak.
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