n. A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. See Castor. ] A peculiar bitter orange-brown substance, with strong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers. [ 1913 Webster ]
. A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]
n. a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold.
v. t. [ See Instaurate. ] To restore. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ See Instaurate, Store. ] To store up; to inclose; to contain. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To overstock. Sir. M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]
And his hand was restored whole as the other. Mark iii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]
Now therefore restore the man his wife. Gen. xx. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]
Loss of Eden, till one greater man
Restore us, and regain the blissful seat. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
The father banished virtue shall restore. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. Ex. xxii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored, and sorrows end. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Restoration. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ Pref. re- + store. ] To store again;
n. Restoration. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who, or that which, restores. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. stor, stoor, OF. estor, provisions, supplies, fr. estorer to store. See Store, v. t. ]
The ships are fraught with store of victuals. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
With store of ladies, whose bright eyes
Rain influence, and give the prize. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
In store,
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 tell no store of,
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . .
Concocted and adjusted, they reduced
To blackest grain, and into store conveyed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Accumulated; hoarded. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Dora stored what little she could save. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Her mind with thousand virtues stored. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]
Wise Plato said the world with men was stored. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]
Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply;
It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto Egyptians. Gen. xli. 56. [ 1913 Webster ]
The Scripture of God is a storehouse abounding with estimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. One who lays up or forms a store. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Story. [ 1913 Webster ]
. a retail store selling a wide variety of items, especially of low price, as in a
v. t. [ Cf. OF. warnesture, garnesture, provisions, supplies, and E. garnish. ] To furnish. [ Obs. ] “To warnstore your house.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Wastrel. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]