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Having the quality of burning. [R.] I. Watts.

To furnish. [Obs.] "To warnstore your house." Chaucer.

A waster; a thief. [Obs. or R.] [Written also wastour.] Chaucer. Southey.

See Wastrel. [Obs.]

A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.

To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay.

using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.

a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation. Ancient coins as abridgments of history. Addison.

To believe; to credit; to put trust in. The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century. Sir G. C. Lewis. He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft. Southey.

The concurrence of several titles to the same proof. Accumulation of energy or power, the storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored. -- An accumulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the ru…

An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.

Relieving weariness; restorative.

nt, but step by step. Barrow. Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law. Blackstone.

The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta).

A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History."

A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.

s. Language . . . affluent in expression. H. Reed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. Prior.

A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles. "The spirit of the age." Prescott. Truth, in some age or other, will find her witness. Milton. Archeological ages are designated as three: The Stone age (the early and the later stone age, called paleolithic a…

To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. [Obs.] "To aggravate thy store." Shak.

te of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.