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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.

A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.

A peculiar bitter orange-brown substance, with strong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers.

A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.

To restore. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To store up; to inclose; to contain. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To overstock. Sir. M. Hale.

To store again; as, the goods taken out were re-stored.

from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. "To restore and to build Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 25. Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And his hand was restored whole as the other. Mark iii. 5.

Restoration. [Obs.]

One who, or that which, restores.

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

See Wastrel. [Obs.]