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d, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.

of a king or a parliament. The usurped power of the pope being destroyed, the crown was restored to its supremacy over spiritual men and causes. Blackstone. Oath supremacy, an oath which acknowledges the supremacy of the sovereign in spiritual affairs, and renounced or abjures the supremacy of the pope in ecclesiastica…

hing, with a design to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality; as, a survey of the stores of a ship; a survey of roads and bridges; a survey of buildings.

To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.

ity; composure; as, to keep one's temper. To fall with dignity, with temper rise. Pope. Restore yourselves to your tempers, fathers. B. Jonson.

A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.

he thing stolen. [R.] If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, . . . he shall restore double. Ex. xxii. 4.

A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.

Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one's things. [Colloq.]

A drawer. Specifically: (a) A tray or drawer in a chest. (b) A money drawer in a shop or store. Till alarm, a device for sounding an alarm when a money drawer is opened or tampered with.

e. Hadrian, having quieted the island, took it for honor to be titled on his coin, "The Restorer of Britain." Milton.

The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head. "From top to toe" Spenser. All the stored vengeance of Heaven fall On her ungrateful top ! Shak.

A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also transport ship, transport vessel.

Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve. This treasure hath fortune unto us given. Chaucer.

A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.

A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.

The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and stored; -- popularly called the bag in cows and other quadrupeds. See Mamma. A lioness, with udders all drawn dry. Shak.

To take from private possession; to restore to the possession or right of all; as, to unappropriate a monopoly. [R.] Milton.

To relieve of numbness; to restore sensation to.

To free from blindness; to give or restore sight to; to open the eyes of. [R.] J. Webster (1607).