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Webster's English Dictionary

store

n. [OE. stor, stoor, OF. estor, provisions, supplies, fr. estorer to store. See Store, v. t.]1. That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; 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.)

2. A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine. ()

3. Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop. ()

4. Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family. ()

His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry. (Chaucer.)

In store, in a state of accumulation; in keeping; hence, in a state of readiness. I have better news in store for thee. Shak. -- Store clothes, clothing purchased at a shop or store; -- in distinction from that which is home-made. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Store pay, payment for goods or work in articles from a shop or store, instead of money. [U.S.] -- To set store by, to value greatly; to have a high appreciation of. -- To tell no store of, to make no account of; to consider of no importance. ()

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In his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes. (Shak.)

Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . . Concocted and adjusted, they reduced To blackest grain, and into store conveyed. (Milton.)

a. Accumulated; hoarded. (Bacon.)

v. t. [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. ()