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The price changed for keeping goods in a store. Storage battery. (Physics) See the Note under Battery.

The office, jurisdiction, or duty, of a pastor; pastorate.

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.

A public establishment for the storage, or for the manufacture and storage, of arms and all military equipments, whether for land or naval service.

en there is an excess of power the dynamo is driven by the engine so as to charge a small storage battery; when there is a deficiency of power the dynamo reverses and acts as an auxiliary motor. Sometimes called Pieper system. -- Automixte car, etc.

A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw Bale of dice, a pair of dice. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.

Chare for storage in a cellar.

A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.

or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage.

at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage. Hong merchant, one of the few Chinese merchants who, previous to the treaty of 1842, formed a guild which had the exclusive privilege of trading with foreigners.

To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.

An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.

A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.

Fees charged for storage in tanks.