Store
Store , noun
[Old English stor, stoor, Old French estor, provisions, supplies, from estorer to store. See Store, transitive verb]
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.
With store of ladies, whose bright eyes
Rain influence, and give the prize.
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. [United States & British Colonies]
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.
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.
Sulphurous and nitrous foam,...
Concocted and adjusted, they reduced
To blackest grain, and into store conveyed.
Collocations (3)
In store , in a state of accumulation; in keeping; hence, in a state of readiness. I have better news in store for thee.
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.
Store , adjective
Accumulated; hoarded. — Bacon
Store , transitive verb
[Old English storen, Old French estorer to construct, restore, store, Late Latin staurare, for Latin instaurare to renew, restore; in + staurare (in comp.) Compare 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.
2.
To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.
Her mind with thousand virtues stored.
Wise Plato said the world with men was stored.
Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish.
3.
To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.