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To refurnish with a voice; to refit, as an organ pipe, so as to restore its tone.

To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.

To bring one round. (a) To cause one to change his opinions or line of conduct. (b) To restore one to health. [Colloq.]

chewing the cud. Rumination is given to animals to enable them at once to lay up a great store of food, and afterward to chew it. Arbuthnot.

fice of matrimony. Walpole. Rummage sale, a clearance sale of unclaimed goods in a public store, or of odds and ends which have accumulated in a shop. Simmonds.

A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores Smart.

manner; not fully; not plentifully; sparingly; parsimoniously. His mind was very scantily stored with materials. Macaulay.

ight, to correct; to put in order. -- To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n. -- To set store by, to consider valuable. -- To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion; to establish the mode. -- To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in c…

To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.

By itself; severally. [Obs.] Every kind of thing is laid up several in barns or storehoudses. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Permanent position or employment; place; office; as, a situation in a store; a situation under government.

which that age was subject. Fuller. The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share. De Foe.

iritual blessings. Eph. i. 3. If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one. Gal. vi. 1.

ction of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.

The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business. [U. S.]

Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions. Add to that stock which justly we bestow. Dryden.

The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.

architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within. [Written also storey.]

ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food and other minor stores. It is commanded by any officer of the rank of brigadier general, called commissary general, and the department is popularly called the Commissary Department.

That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply. [Obs.] Chapman.