资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
Garden \Gar"den\ (g[aum]r"d'n; 277), n. [OE. gardin, OF. gardin,
jardin, F. jardin, of German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G.
garten; akin to AS. geard. See {Yard} an inclosure.]
1. A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of
herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.
I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant
garden of great Italy. --Shak.
Note: Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining
compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden
walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse.
{Garden balsam}, an ornamental plant ({Impatiens Balsamina}).
{Garden engine}, a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering
gardens.
{Garden glass}.
(a) A bell glass for covering plants.
(b) A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal,
to reflect surrounding objects; -- much used as an
ornament in gardens in Germany.
{Garden house}
(a) A summer house. --Beau. & Fl.
(b) A privy. [Southern U.S.]
{Garden husbandry}, the raising on a small scale of seeds,
fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale.
{Garden} {mold or mould}, rich, mellow earth which is fit for
a garden. --Mortimer.
{Garden nail}, a cast nail used, for fastening vines to brick
walls. --Knight.
{Garden net}, a net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc.,
to protect them from birds.
{Garden party}, a social party held out of doors, within the
grounds or garden attached to a private residence.
{Garden plot}, a plot appropriated to a garden.
{Garden pot}, a watering pot.
{Garden pump}, a garden engine; a barrow pump.
{Garden shears}, large shears, for clipping trees and hedges,
pruning, etc.
{Garden spider}, (Zo["o]l.), the diadem spider ({Epeira
diadema}), common in gardens, both in Europe and America.
It spins a geometrical web. See {Geometric spider}, and
{Spider web}.
{Garden stand}, a stand for flower pots.
{Garden stuff}, vegetables raised in a garden. [Colloq.]
{Garden syringe}, a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling
them with solutions for destroying insects, etc.
{Garden truck}, vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.]
{Garden ware}, garden truck. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
{Bear garden}, {Botanic garden}, etc. See under {Bear}, etc.
{Hanging garden}. See under {Hanging}.
{Kitchen garden}, a garden where vegetables are cultivated
for household use.
{Market garden}, a piece of ground where vegetable are
cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use.
资料来源 : WordNet®
kitchen garden
n : a small garden where vegetables are grown [syn: {vegetable
garden}, {vegetable patch}]