Obs. [OE. stór masc., rendering L. storax and tus; perh. a. L. storax (see STORAX).] Incense.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., I. 116. Hi … him ʓeoffrodon … gold and recels and myrran … Se stor [ʓetacnode] ðæt he is soð God.
c. 1250. Kent. Serm., in O. E. Misc., 26. Hi wolden offri him gold, and stor, and Mirre.
c. 1265. Voc. Plants, in Wr.-Wülcker, 556/44. Olibanus, encens, stor.
c. 1315. Shoreham, Poems, v. 160. Gold, myrre, stor, were here offrynges.
1340. Ayenb., 211. Þet stor huanne hit is ope þe uere smelþ zuete.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 99. in Arabia is store, mir, and canel.
b. Comb.: stor-fat, a censer.
c. 1000. Sign Language, in Techmer’s Zeitschr. (1885), II. 120. Ðonne þu storfæt habban wille, þonne wend þu þine hand ofdune and weʓe hi, swilce þu styre.
c. 1200. Vices & Virtues, 143. Swa go upp mine ȝebede to-foren ðe, swa ðat stor dieth ut of storfate!
