Store (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stored (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Storing.]
[OE. storen,
OF. estorer to construct, restore, store, LL. staurare, for L. instaurare to renew, restore; in + staurare (in comp.) Cf. Instore, Instaurate, Restore, Story a floor.] 1. To collect as
a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
Dora stored what little she could save.
Tennyson.
2. To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.
Her
mind with thousand virtues stored.
Prior. Wise Plato said the world with men was
stored.
Denham.
Having stored a pond of four
acres with carps, tench, and other fish.
Sir M. Hale.
3. To deposit in a
store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.
Store , a.
Accumulated; hoarded. Bacon.
Store (?), n. [OE. stor, stoor, OF. estor, provisions, supplies, fr. estorer
to store. See Store, v. t.]
1.
That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.
The ships are fraught with store of victuals.
Bacon. With store of ladies, whose bright eyes
Rain influence, and give the prize.
Milton.
2. A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
3. Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop. [U.S.
& British Colonies]
4.
pl. Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies,
as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like;
as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.
His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry.
Chaucer. In store, in a state of accumulation; in keeping; hence, in a state of readiness. "I have better news in store for thee." Shak. -- Store
clothes, clothing
purchased at a shop or store; -- in distinction from that which is
home-made. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Store
pay, payment for goods or
work in articles from a shop or store, instead of money. [U.S.] --
To set store by, to value greatly; to have a high appreciation of. --
To tell no
store of, to make no account of; to consider of no importance.
Syn. -- Fund; supply; abundance; plenty; accumulation; provision. -- Store,
Shop. The English call the place where goods are sold (however large or splendid it may be) a shop, and confine the word store to its original meaning; viz., a warehouse, or place where goods are stored. In America the word store is applied to all
places, except the smallest,
where goods are sold. In some British colonies the word store is used as in the United States.
In his needy
shop a tortoise hung,
An alligator stuffed, and other skins
Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his
shelves
A beggarly account of empty boxes.
Shak.
Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . .
Concocted and
adjusted, they reduced
To
blackest grain, and into store
conveyed.
Milton.
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