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.
Sto"ri*al (?), a. Historical. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sto"ried (?), a. [From Story.] 1. Told in a story.
2. Having a history; interesting from the stories which pertain to it;
venerable from the associations of the past.
Some greedy minion, or imperious wife, The trophied arches, storied
halls, invade.
Pope.
Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the
fleeting breath?
Gray.
3. Having (such or so many) stories; -- chiefly in composition; as, a
two-storied house.
Sto"ri*er (?), n. A relater of stories; an historian. [Obs.] Bp.
Peacock.
Sto"ri*fy (?), v. t. [Story + -fy.] To form or tell stories of; to
narrate or describe in a story. [Obs.]
Stork (?), n. [AS. storc; akin to G. storch, OHG. storah, Icel. storkr,
Dan. & Sw. stork, and perhaps to Gr. &?; a vulture.] (Zoöl.) Any one of
several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconidæ, having
long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old
World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera.
The European white stork (Ciconia alba) is the best known. It commonly
makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or
a pillar. The black stork (C. nigra) is native of Asia, Africa, and
Europe.
Black-necked stork, the East Indian jabiru. -- Hair-crested stork, the
smaller adjutant of India (Leptoptilos Javanica). -- Giant stork, the
adjutant. -- Marabou stork. See Marabou. -- Saddle-billed stork, the
African jabiru. See Jabiru. -- Stork's bill (Bot.), any plant of the
genus Pelargonium; -- so called in allusion to the beaklike
prolongation of the axis of the receptacle of its flower. See
Pelargonium.
Stork"-billed` (?), a. Having a bill like that of the stork.
Storm (?), n. [AS. storm; akin to D. storm, G. sturm, Icel. stormr; and
perhaps to Gr. &?; assault, onset, Skr. s&?; to flow, to hasten, or
perhaps to L. sternere to strew, prostrate (cf. Stratum). √166.]
1. A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain,
snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of
rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not.
We hear this fearful tempest sing, Yet seek no shelter to avoid the
storm.
Shak.
2. A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or
domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak;
clamor; tumult.