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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.

rchitecturally, 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.

, 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.

f 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 ecclesiastical…

ing, 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.

A swimming bird; one of the natatores. Little swimmer (Zoöl.), a phalarope.

Tore.

ty; 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.

e 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.

. 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.

See 3d Tore, 2.