Mag`a*zine" (?), n. [F. magasin, It. magazzino, or Sp. magacen,
almagacen; all fr. Ar. makhzan, almakhzan, a storehouse, granary, or
cellar.]
1. A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military
stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. "Armories and magazines."
Milton.
2. The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a
fortification or a ship.
3. A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed
automatically to the piece.
4. A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or
compositions.
Magazine dress, clothing made chiefly of woolen, without anything
metallic about it, to be worn in a powder magazine. -- Magazine gun, a
portable firearm, as a rifle, with a chamber carrying cartridges which
are brought automatically into position for firing. -- Magazine stove,
a stove having a chamber for holding fuel which is supplied to the fire
by some self-feeding process, as in the common base-burner.
Mag`a*zine" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Magazined (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Magazining.] To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.
Mag`a*zin"er (?), n. One who edits or writes for a magazine. [R.]
Goldsmith.
Mag`a*zin"ing, n. The act of editing, or writing for, a magazine.
[Colloq.] Byron.