Forms: 4 stoore, 6 stoare, 7 Sc. stoir, stor, 3– store; pa. pple. 3–4 istored, 4–5 ystored, -id. [Aphetic var. of ASTORE v., a. OF. estore-r to build, establish, furnish, stock, fortify, restore:—L. instaurāre, whence INSTAURATION. Cf. ENSTORE, INSTORE vbs. Sense 4 is prob. a new formation on STORE sb.]
1. trans. To furnish, supply, stock (a person, place, etc.) with something.
1264. Pol. Songs (Camden), 70. The Kyng of Alemaigne … Brohte from Alemayne mony sori gost to store Wyndesore.
c. 1275. Lay., 13412. Alle þine castles ich habbe wel istored.
1338. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 160. Isaac did it store, to hold for tuo ȝere.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Shipm. T., 273. Certein beestes þat I moste beye To stoore with a place þat is oures.
c. 1450. St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 1788. He tellit before þat an egle suld him store.
1530. Palsgr., 737/2. I have storyd my parkes and my pondes.
1586. Ferne, Blaz. Gentrie, 226. That noble familie … stored the crowne of England, well nigh the space of foure hundreth yeares.
a. 1595. Southwell, St. Peter’s Compl. (1602), 15. Sweet volumes stoard with learning fit for Saints.
1595. Shaks., John, V. iv. 1. I did not thinke the King so stor’d with friends.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Wilts, 155. After he had stored himself with home-bred Learning.
1720. De Foe, Capt. Singleton, vi. (1840), 99. We stored ourselves … with flesh and roots.
1722. N. Blundell, Diary (1895), 187. I sent two Doz. yong Pigeons to Mr. Plumbe to Store his Dove-Coat.
1837–40. W. Irving, Wolfert’s R., Mountjoy (1855), 69. These studies … store a man’s mind with valuable facts.
1857. Livingstone, Trav., Introd. 2. His memory was stored with a never-ending stock of stories.
a. 1883. J. Russell, Remin. Yarrow, iv. (1894), 84. Most of the lakes are stored with pike, perch, eels, and trout.
absol. (for refl.) 1803. Naval Chron., IX. 494. The Prevoyante … is storing at this port.
† b. const. of. Obs.
c. 1400. Maundev. (1839), xix. 207. No Cytee of the World is so wel stored of Schippes, as is that.
1422. Yonge, trans. Secreta Secret., xiii. 142. Bethynke the that thow be well y-storid of whete and of corne.
1511. Guylforde’s Pilgr. (Camden), 59. Where some of vs went a londe … to store vs of newe vytaylles.
1633. C. Farewell, East-Ind. Colation, 41. Theyr Wives and Concubines (whereof they are stored according to theyr states).
1657. R. Ligon, Barbadoes, 19. The Leeward Ilands,… of which the Bay of Merixo [read Mexico] is well stor’d.
† c. To dose with (drugs or medicines). Obs.
1722. De Foe, Hist. Plague (1754), 36. Storeing themselves with such Multitudes of Pills, Potions, and Preservatives,… that they … even poison’d themselves before-hand.
2. a. To reinforce, provide for the continuance or improvement of (a stock, race, breed). Obs. exc. Sc. dial. in to store the kin: see quot. 1866.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 2940. [Lot’s daughter speaks]. I think man-kind sal perist be, Bot it be stord wit me and þe.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 626. The sheepe of Spaine were of no reckoning til they were stored with the breed of England.
1866. Gregor, Banffsh. Gloss., Store the kin, to live; very often used, with a negative, of a person to appearance dying; as, ‘He’s unco ill; a doot he winna store the kin lang.’
1909. C. Murray, Hamewith, 90. Content gin mony towmonds still we’re left to store the kin.
† b. To produce as offspring; also, to breed, rear (young animals). Obs.
1611. Heywood, Golden Age, IV. i. H 2. Or shall a stranger beare you to your tombe, When from your owne blood you may store a Prince To do those sacred rights.
1629. Orkney Witch Trial, in County Folk-Lore (1903), III. 80. He … storit never ane calff of fyftene ky be the space of thrie yeirs.
† 3. To restore (what is ruined or weakened). Obs.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 189. Harald … stored Herford, and closid it with kesting up of a diche [Herefordiam instaurans vallo cingit].
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 727. [She] Storet thee to strenght & þi stythe londes.
14[?]. Guy Warw. (Cambr. MS.), 3842. And thorowowt my londe fare And store ageyne, þat lorne was are.
4. To keep in store for future use; to collect and keep in reserve; to form a store, stock or supply of; to accumulate, hoard.
1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., II. iii. 40. I haue fiue hundred Crownes … Which I did store to be my foster Nurse.
1620. T. Granger, Div. Logike, 120. How many seedes the sleepy poppy stores.
1671. Milton, Samson, 395. My capital secret, in what part my strength Lay stor’d.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, IV. 165. Safe stored it lies, By many a Chief desired.
1820. Keats, Eve St. Agnes, xx. All cates and dainties shall be stored there.
1842. Tennyson, Dora, 30. But Dora stored what little she could save, And sent it them by stealth.
1874. L. Stephen, Hours in Libr. (1892), I. viii. 270. The vast accumulation of incoherent facts … stored in a capacious memory.
1881. S. P. Thompson, in Jrnl. Soc. Arts, XXX. 30/2. In the electric accumulator, by which we want to store electric currents, we use a chemical storage. Ibid., 32/1. In an ounce of gunpowder is stored about 10,000 foot-pounds of energy.
1893. D. J. Rankin, Zambesi Basin, xiv. 241. The drink [thus made] is consumed immediately after its manufacture, and is never stored.
fig. 1842. Tennyson, Ulysses, 29. And vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself.
absol. 1906. M. Sellers, Eastland Co. (Camden), Introd. 58. When there was a glut they stored; when there was a scarcity they threw goods into the market.
b. With up, away, † in.
1552. Huloet, Store vp, repono.
1561. T. Hoby, trans. Castiglione’s Courtier, I. (1577), F iij b. The true glory, that is stored vppe in the holy treasure of letters.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, II. i. 111. Many receits he gaue me, chieflie one, Which … He bad me store vp, as a triple eye, Safer then mine owne two.
1718. Free-thinker, No. 89. 237. Their Memory increases by daily storing up a Variety of Knowledge.
1770. G. White, Selborne, To Pennant, 22 Feb. I never could find that they stored in any winter provision, as some quadrupeds certainly do.
1866. Sci. Rev., Sept., 96/2. This curious property of acetate of soda enables us, by means of it, to store up and recover solar heat at pleasure.
1879. Lubbock, Sci. Lect., i. 10. She [a bee] … goes back to the hive, stores away her honey, and returns … for another supply.
1881. S. P. Thompson, in Nature 2 June, 106/1. The currents stored up in the secondary battery are however not stored up as accumulations of electricity.
1912. J. S. M. Ward, Brasses, xv. 103. He stored them away and forgot all about them.
c. spec. To deposit (goods, furniture, etc.) in a store or warehouse for temporary preservation or safe-keeping.
1899. Grocery, 15 May, 125/3. [He] exhibited some California Newtown pippins, which had been stored since last December, as an instance of what cold storage could do.
Mod. I shall store my furniture and spend a year in travelling.
5. Of a receptacle: To hold, keep, contain, have storage-accommodation for.
1911. Concise Oxf. Dict., s.v., A single cell can store 2000000 foot-pounds of energy.
Hence Storing vbl. sb. (also attrib.) and ppl. a.
1494–5. Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905), 214. Item, for storyng of the bemelight & canstikes … ij s j d.
1573–80. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 35. No storing of pasture with baggedglie tit.
a. 1586. Sidney, Ps. IV. vi. Whose store … Of grain and wine fills stoaring place.
1667. Milton, P. L., V. 324. Save what by frugal storing firmness gains To nourish.
1726. Leoni, Alberti’s Archit., I. 98 a The gathering together and storing up the fruits of the harvest.
1884. Pall Mall Gaz., 13 Sept. 9/1. The lofts over the stable were used as a storing place for hay and straw.
1901. Scotsman, 3 April, 7/4. There was a moderate show of storing cattle.
1907. A. C. Benson, Altar Fire, 150. What would be idleness in another is for him a storing of forces.
