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See Stoor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.

bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most common of these is liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant.

awn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number. The ships are fraught with store of victuals. Bacon. With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and give the prize. Milton.

Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity. It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot.

kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse. Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto Egyptians. Gen. xli. 56. The Scripture of God is a storehouse abounding with estimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Hooker.

A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper.

One who lays up or forms a store.

Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.

A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.

See Story.

Parental affection; the instinctive affection which animals have for their young.

Historical. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Told in a story.

A relater of stories; an historian. [Obs.] Bp. Peacock.

To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story. [Obs.]

World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera. The European white stork (Ciconia alba) is the best known. It commonly makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or a pillar. The black stork (C. nigra) is native of Asia, Africa, and Europe. Black-necked stork, the East I…

Having a bill like that of the stork.

ied with wind or not. We hear this fearful tempest sing, Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm. Shak.

Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. Spenser.