STORE, n.

Hoarded; laid up; as, store treasure. [Not in use.]

1. A large number; as, a store of years. [Obs.] – Dryden.
2. A large quantity; great plenty; abundance; as, a store of wheat or provisions. – Bacon.
3. A stock provided; a large quantity for supply; ample abundance. The troops have great stores of provisions and ammunition. The ships have stores for a long voyage. [This is the present usual acceptation of the word, and in this sense the plural, stores, is commonly used. When applied to a single article of supply, it is still sometimes used in the singular; as, a good store of wine or of bread.]
4. Quantity accumulated; fund; abundance; as, stores of knowledge.
5. A storehouse; a magazine; a warehouse. Nothing can be more convenient than the stores on Central wharf in Boston.
6. In the United States, shops for the sale of goods of any kind, by wholesale or retail, are often called stores. In store, in a state of accumulation, in a literal sense; hence in a state of store preparation for supply in a state of readiness. Happiness is laid up in store for the righteous; misery is in store for the wicked.

1. To furnish; to supply; to replenish. Wise Plato said the world with men was stor'd. – Denham Her mind with thousand virtues stored. – Prior.
2. To stock against a future time; as, a garrison well stormed with provisions. One having stored a pond of four acres with carp, tench and other fish. – Hale.
3. To reposit in a store or warehouse for preservation; warehouse; as, to store goods.

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. Accumulated; hoarded.
   
   
   Bacon.
3. To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
   
   

   Dora stored what little she could save. Tennyson.

4. A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
5. 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.

6. Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.
   
   
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7. To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.
8. 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.