stot1 (stot)

[Early mod. E. also stotte; IMG:content-2223.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To ornament with sculptured or painted 2. A young ox; a steer. scenes from history or legend. Compare sto- ried2. II. in trans. To relate; narrate. Cupid, if storying Legends tell aright, Once framed a rich Elixir of Delight. Cole ridge, Composition of a Ki . 2. An account of an event or incident; a relastory2 (stoʻri), n. [Sometimes storey , early tion; a recital: as, stories of bravery. mod. E. storie, stourie; story , prob. estoree , a building, a thing built, estoree , A lered man, to lere the [teach thee] fem. pp. of estorer , build, instaurare , erect, of gode Friday the storye . Piers Plowman (B), xiii. 447. build, etc.: see store3, v.] 1. A building; an ... And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been deposed, some slain in war. Shak ., Rich. II., iii. 2. 156. To make short of a long story , I have been bred up from childhood with great expectations. Dickens , Martin Chuzzlewit, vi. 3. In lit. , a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse; a tale, written in a more or le imaginative style, of that which has happened or is supposed to have happened; specifically, a fictitious tale, shorter and le elaborate than a novel; a short romance; a folk-tale. Call up him that left half-told The story of Cam bus can bold, Of Camball and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife. Milton , Il Penseroso, 1. 110. Voltaire has a curious e ay to show that most of our best modern stories and plots originally belonged to the eastern nations. I. D'Israeli, Curios. of Lit., I. 174. 4. The facts or events in a given case considered in their sequence, whether related or not; the experience or career of an individual: as, the story of a foundling; his is a sad story. Weep with me, all you that read This little story. B. Jonson , Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy. There was not a grave in the church-yard but had its story . Lowell , Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 206. 5. An anecdote: as, a speech abounding in good stories . I'will go yet further, and affirm that the succe of a story very often depends upon the make of the body, and formation of the features, of him who relates it. edifice. Hii [they] bygonne her he ye tounes strengthy [strengthen] vaste aboute, Her castles & storys, that hii myzhte be ynne in doute [danger]. Rob. of Gloucester, p. 181. 2. A stage or floor of a building; hence, a subdivision of the height of a house; a set of rooms on the same level or floor. A story comprehends the distance from one floor to another: as, a story of nine, twelve, or sixteen feet elevation. They founde the kyng in his pallaice sittynge vppon a floure or stourie made of the leaues of date trees wrought after a curious diuise lyke a certeyne kynde of mattes. R. Eden , tr. of Antonio Pigafetta (First Books on America, [ed. Arber, p. 257). Upon the ground storey a fair gallery, open, upon pil. lars; and upon the third storey likewise an open gallery upon pillars, to take the prospect and freshne of the garden. Bacon , Building (ed. 1887). Attic story. See attic2, 1.- Mezzanine story. Same as entresol. The upper story, the brain; the wits. [Familiar and ludicrous.] He's a good sort o' man, for all he's not overburthen'd i' th ' upper storey. George Eliot, Amos Barton, i. story-book (stō'ri-bük), n. A book containing one or more stories or tales; a printed collection of short tales. his (Richter's] are the best you can now get. If you want to make presents of story - books to children, Ruskin, Elements of Drawing, App. And Grace gaue Pieres of his goodne e foure stott is , Al that his oxen eryed they to harwe after. Piers Plowman (B), xix. 262. To procure restitution in integrum of every stirk and stot that the chief and his clan had stolen since the days of Malcolm Can more. Scott , Waverley, xv. The woman would work - ay, and get up at any hour; and the strength of a stot she had. W. Black , Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 889. 3. A weasel; a stoat. See cut under stoat . Lamb, wolf, fox, leopard, minx, stot , miniver. Middle ton, Triumphs of Love and Antiquity. [The name was formerly applied in contempt to a human being. "Nay, olde stot , that is not myn entente," Quod this so mon our, "for to repente me." Chaucer, Friar's Tale, 1. 332.]