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t.; pret. and pp. stored, ppr. storing. [ No Cytee of the World is so wel stored of Schippes as is that. Mandeville, Travels, p. 207. Her Mind with you sand Virtues stor'd. Prior, Ode to the King after the Queen's Death, st. 35. I believe for Greek & Latin there come very few lads so well stored to the University. William Lloyd , in Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 188. 2. To stock with provisions; provision; re act of storing, in any sense; specifically, the plenish. keeping of goods in a store, warehouse, or other place of deposit.-2. The price charged or paid for keeping goods in a storehouse. - Cold storage, storage in refrigerating chambers or other places artificially cooled, as for the preservation of articles liable to be damaged by heat. - Storage battery. See battery. - Storage magazine. Same as magazine, 1 (a).- Storage warehouse. See warehouse. storage-bellows (stor'āj-bel"ōz), n. See or gan1, 6. storax (stō'raks), n . [= F. storax , styrax , στύραξ , a sweet-smelling resin so called, also a tree producing it.] 1. A solid resin resembling benzoin, with the fra- grance of vanilla, formerly obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinal is , of Asia Minor and Syria. It was in use from ancient times down to the close of the last century, but has disappeared from the market, the trees having been mostly reduced to bushes by exce ive lopping. This, that, and ev'ry thicket doth transpire More sweet than storax from the hallowed fire. Herrick , Apparition of his Mistre e. 2. The tree yielding storax, or some other tree or shrub of the same genus. Among the American species, Styrax Californica is a handsome Californian shrub. See cut in next column. - Liquid storax, a balsam known from ancient times with the true storax, obtained by boiling and pre ing from the inner bark of the Oriental sweetgum tree, Liquidambar oriental is, itself also called liquid ambar. It is a semi-fluid adhesive substance with the properties of a stimulant expectorant, but now scarcely used in Western practice except as a constituent in the compound tincture of benzoin (resembling friars' balsam: see benzoin ), and as an application for itch. It has long been used in making incense and fumigating preparations, and also enters into perfumery. Its chief markets are China and India. A similar balsam is obtained, chiefly in Burma, from Altingia excels a, known (together with the last) in East Indian commerce as rose - maloes, rasamala, etc. In Formosa and southern China a dry terebinth i no us resin of the same character is derived from Liquidambar For mos an a (a species recently identified). An American liquidambar, or liquid storax, or a substitute for it, is procured as natural exudation or by incision from the bark Alle thine castles ich habbe wel is to red . Layamon , 1. 13412. Backe to the yle of Alango, where some of vs went a londe to store vs of newe vytaylles. Sir R. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 59. 3. To deposit in a store or warehouse for preservation or safe-keeping; warehouse. Now was stored In the sweet-smelling granaries all the hoard Of golden corn. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 393. 4. To lay up in reserve; accumulate; hoard: often with up . According to Sir W. Thomson a single Faure cell of the spiral form, weighing 165 lbs., can store 2,000,000 foot pounds of energy. W. L. Carpenter, Energy in Nature (1st ed.), p. 125. 5t. To restore. Keppit the fro combraunse & fro cold deth, Storet thee to strenght & thi stythe londes, And dawly hir distitur of hir fader. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 726. store3 (stor), n. and a. [ stor , store, stoor (cf. W. ystor = Gael. stor , estorie , provisions, store, a fleet, navy, army, staurum (also, after OF., storium ), same as instaurum , store, instaurare , renew, restore, ML. also provide, furnish, store: see store3, v.] I. n. 1. That which is provided or furnished for use as needed; a stock accumulated as for future use; a supply; a hoard; specifically, in the plural, articles, particularly of food, accumulated for a specific object; supplies, as of food, ammunition, arms, or cloth ing: as, military or naval stores ; the winter stores of a family. IMG:content-2213.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2214.png:[blocks in formation] 3. A place where supplies, as provisions, ammunition, arms, clothing, or goods of any kind, are kept for future use or distribution; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine. Sulphurous and nitrous foam,.. Concocted and adjusted, they reduced To blackest grain, and into store convey'd. Milton , P. L., vi. 515. Hence-4. A place where goods are kept for sale by either wholesale or retail; a shop: as, a book- store ; a dry-goods store. See note under shop1 , 2. [U. S. and British colonies.] Stores, as the shops are called. Capt . B. Hall , Travels in N. A., I. 8. Bill of stores. See bills. - Bonded store. See bonded. - Coöperative store. See coöperative. - Fancy store. See fancy.-General-order store, a customs warehouse in which goods are stored temporarily, as unclaimed, or arriving in advance of invoice or transportation papers, or through other like cause of detention. Such goods are obtainable only on a general order. General store, a store or shop where goods of all ordinary kinds are kept for sale; especially, such a store in a country village or at cro -roads. In store, laid up; on hand; ready to be produced: as, we know not what the future has in store for us. I have an hour's talk in store for you. Shak ., J. C., ii. 2. 121. Marine, ordnance, public stores. See the qualifying words. Sea-stores, provisions and supplies on shipboard for use at sea. Compare ship -stores. - Ship-stores, provisions and supplies for use on board ships at sea or in port: such supplies are sealed, as non-dutiable, by the customs officers. - Small stores, in a man-of-war, a general term embracing tinware, tobacco, soap, razors, brushes, thread, needles, etc., i ued and charged to the men by the paymaster. - Subsistence stores. See subsistence. - To set store by. See set1, v. t., 18.- To tell no store oft, to make no account of; set no store by. I ne telle of laxatyves no store, For they ben venymous, I woot it weel; I hem diff ye, I love hem never a deel. Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 334. II. a. 11. Hoarded; laid up: as, store linen; store fruit. IMG:content-2215.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Containing stores; set apart for receiving stores or supplies. Compare store - city.-3. Obtained at a store or shop; purchased or purchasable at a shop or store: as, store clothes; store teeth (humorously used for false teeth ). This word in rural or frontier use is commonly opposed to home-made, and implies preference: as, stylish store curtains; in town use it is usually opposed to made to order, and implies disparagement: as, clumsy store boots. [Colloq., U. S.] - Store casemate. Same as barrack case mate (which see, under barrack ). - Store cattle, lean cattle bought for fattening by squatters who find that they have more gra than the natural increase of their herd requires. [Australia.] Oh, we are not fit for anything but store cattle : we are all blady gra . Mrs. Campbell Praed , Head Station, p. 74. Store pay, payment for country produce, labor, etc., by goods from a store, in lieu of cash; barter. [Rural, U. S.] See, a girl has just arrived with a pot of butter to trade off for store pay . She wants in exchange a yard of calico, a quarter of tea, Capt. Priest's Adventures , p. 54. ( Bartlett .) and a bottle of rum.