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l interests, or party feelings, it is hoped, will hereafter yield to schemes of ambition. Story.

which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history. O, let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before. Shak.

de. -- To shift the scene, to change the locality or the surroundings, as in a play or a story. Shift the scene for half an hour; Time and place are in thy power. Swift.

are of M. in the shipment is exempted from condemnation by reason of his neutral domicle. Story.

A place or object hallowed from its history or associations; as, a shrine of art.

A description or history of the forest trees of a country.

Plain; unadorned; as, simple dress. "Simple truth." Spenser. "His simple story." Burns.

A student of Chinese; one versed in the Chinese language, literature, and history.

ghly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story. [U.S.]

to ally itself with the most advanced democracy. Encyc. Brit. We certainly want a true history of socialism, meaning by that a history of every systematic attempt to provide a new social existence for the mass of the workers. F. Harrison.

certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as, this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an invention. Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair Shak. To sound in or into, to tend to; to partake of the nature of; to be consonant with. [Obs., except in the phrase To sou…

century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history. Macaulay.

A story; a tale. [Obs.] "Hearken to my spell." Chaucer.

The science of seals, their history, age, distinctions, etc., esp. as verifying the age and genuiness of documents.

a great length; -- with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject. Do you mean that story is tediously spun out Sheridan.

A floor or story of a house. [Obs.] Wyclif.

to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock. Whosoever will read the story of this war will find himself much stagered. Howell. Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility. Burke.

A series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another; -- commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the singular only. "I a winding stair found." Chaucer's Dream. Below stairs, in the basement or lower part of a house, where the servants are. -- Flight of stairs, the stairs which make the wh…

Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors.

o move; stable; fixed. Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. Southey.