Kitch″en (kĭch″ĕn), 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. “A brazen tub of kitchen lee.” Ford. — Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans. Donne.