Mag`a*zine" , n.
1. A country or district especially rich in natural products.
2.
A city viewed as a marketing center.
3. A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
4. A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
Mag`a*zine" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Magazined (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Magazining.]
To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.
Mag`a*zine" (?), n. [F. magasin, It.
magazzino, or Sp. magacen,
almagacen; all fr. Ar.
makhzan, almakhzan, a storehouse, granary, or cellar.]
1. A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military
stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. "Armories and magazines." Milton.
2. The building or room in which
the supply of powder is
kept in a fortification or a ship.
3. A chamber in a
gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.
4. A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or
compositions.
Magazine dress, clothing made chiefly of woolen, without anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder magazine. --
Magazine gun, a portable firearm, as a
rifle, with a chamber carrying cartridges which are brought automatically
into position for firing. -- Magazine stove, a stove having a chamber for holding fuel which is supplied to the fire by some self-feeding process, as in the common
base-burner.
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