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Store, a. Accumulated; hoarded. Bacon.

Store (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Storing.] [OE. storen, OF. estorer to construct, restore, store, LL. staurare, for L. instaurare to renew, restore; in + staurare (in comp.) Cf. Instore, Instaurate, Restore, Story a floor.] 1. To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.

Dora stored what little she could save.

Tennyson.

2. To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.

Her mind with thousand virtues stored.

Prior.

Wise Plato said the world with men was stored.

Denham.

Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish.

Sir M. Hale.

3. To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.

Stored (?), a. Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity.

It is charged with stored virtue.

Bagehot.

Store"house` (?), n. 1. A building for keeping goods of any 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.

2. A mass or quality laid up. [Obs.] Spenser.

Store"keep`er (?), n. 1. A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper.

2. One who keeps a "store;" a shopkeeper. See 1st Store, 3. [U. S.]

Stor"er (?), n. One who lays up or forms a store.

Store"room` (?), n. Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.

Store"ship` (?), n. A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.

Sto"rey (?), n. See Story.

||Stor"ge (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?;, &?;, to love.] Parental ||affection; the instinctive affection which animals have for their ||young.