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To supply with knowledge; to instruct; to store; -- said of the mind. Sir W. Raleigh.

To store (green fodder) in a silo; to prepare as silage. -- En"si*list (#), n.

A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepôt for shipping goods in transit.

Stored or furnished with wine. [Obs.] Chaucer.

the earth; commonly a minor division or part of a period. The long geological epoch which stored up the vast coal measures. J. C. Shairp.

hatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops. Dryden. Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.

A public storehouse.

Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store.

y have no intrinsic value, and the fluctuations in their prices are artificial. -- Fancy store, one where articles of fancy and ornament are sold. -- Fancy woods, the more rare and expensive furniture woods, as mahogany, satinwood, rosewood, etc.

In a feeble manner. The restored church . . . contended feebly, and with half a heart. Macaulay.

n of defiance; the emblem of anarchists. -- To dip, the flag, to mlower it and quickly restore it to its place; -- done as a mark of respect. -- To hang out the white flag, to ask truce or quarter, or, in some cases, to manifest a friendly design by exhibiting a white flag. -- To hang the flag half-mast high or half…

The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.

One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director. [U.S.]

A kindof flyboat; a storeship. Armed en flûte ( (Nav.), partially armed.

As if we had them not. Shak. For because, because. [Obs.] "Nor for because they set less store by their own citizens." Robynson (More's Utopia). -- For why. (a) Why; for that reason; wherefore. [Obs.] (b) Because. [Obs.] See Forwhy.

Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division. He snall restore the lamb fourfold. 2 Sam. xii. 6.

Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged. A vessel of our country richly fraught. Shak. A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences oSouth. Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits. I. Taylor.

revent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse. Totten. To freshen ballast (Naut.), to shift Or restore it. -- To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part. -- To freshen the way, to increase the speed of a vessel. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

To store or furnish with fuel or firing. [Obs.] Well watered and well fueled. Sir H. Wotton.

Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information. Reading maketh a full man. Bacon.