Storage battery. (Physics) See the Note under Battery.
Sto"rax (?), n. [L. storax, styrax, Gr. &?;. Cf. Styrax.] Any one of a
number of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several
trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most common of these is
liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable
aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in
medicine as an expectorant.
A yellow aromatic honeylike substance, resembling, and often confounded
with, storax, is obtained from the American sweet gum tree (Liquidambar
styraciflua), and is much used as a chewing gum, called sweet gum, and
liquid storax. Cf. Liquidambar.
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. [U.S. & British Colonies]
4. pl. 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.
Syn. -- Fund; supply; abundance; plenty; accumulation; provision. --
Store, Shop. The English call the place where goods are sold (however
large or splendid it may be) a shop, and confine the word store to its
original meaning; viz., a warehouse, or place where goods are stored.
In America the word store is applied to all places, except the
smallest, where goods are sold. In some British colonies the word store
is used as in the United States.
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.
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.