stop-ship 
stop-shipt(stop'ship), w. [<*to/>i,r., + obj.sWp; 
a translation of the Gr. f,v"''/".'> the veraora: 
see K<-ln iii-it. .-did ef. <;, jrmra.] The fish 
remors. 
O Slop-ship, . . . tell vs where thoti doo'st thine Anchors 
hide . 
Whence tholl resistest Sayls, Owere, Wind, and Tide. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 5. 
stop-thrust ' (stop'thrust), H. In fencing, a 
slight thrust at one's opponent, instead of a 
parry, made after he has begun to lunge for- 
ward in ;ui attack. The stop-thrust goes over by 
delicate gradations into the time-thrust, but is not con- 
sidered by fencers a tine blow like the time-thrust. 
stop-valve (stop'valv), . 1. In hi/draul., a 
valve which closes a pipe against the passage 
of fluid. It is usually a disk which occupies a chamber 
above the pipe when the passageway through the latter 
is open, and is driven down by a screw to stop the aper- 
ture. 
2. In steam-engines, a valve fitted to the steam- 
pipes, where they leave the several boilers, in 
such a way that any boiler may be shut off from 
the others and from the engines. 
stop-watch (stop'woch), n. A watch which re- 
cords small fractions of a second, and in which 
the hands can be stopped at any instant, so as 
to mark the exact time at which some event 
occurs : chiefly used in timing races. 
He suspended his voice in the epilogue a dozen times, 
three seconds and three fifths by a stopwatch, my lord, 
each time. Sterile, Tristram Shandy, iii. 12. 
59(i9 
storehouse 
Hence 2. A great quantity : a large number ; 
abundance: plenty: used with, or archaically 
without, the indefinite iirtidr. 
That olde man of pleasing wordes had store. 
, F. <J., I.I. 35. 
Branch with Flowers of Storax (Stj/rax Call/arnica), 
a, a leaf, showing nervation. 
of the sweet gum, Liquidambar styraciflua, in the hotter 
parts of its habitat. It is better known in Europe than 
in the United States, where it is perhaps most used for 
making chewing-gum. 
Storax linuida [cometh] from Rhodes. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 277. 
Storax ointment. See ointment. 
stop-water (stop'wa"ter), n. [< stojA, t\, + 
obj. water.'] 1. Naut., a drag. 2. A plug of 
soft wood driven tightly into a hole at the Storax-tree (sto'raks-tre), n. Same as storax, 2. 
joint of a scarf, the expansion of which, when Store 1 !, a. A Middle English form of stoor 1 . 
immersed, prevents water from working up store 2 t, v. A Middle English form of stoorl. 
through the scarf and behind the bottom plank- Store 3 (stor), t). t.; pret. and pp. stored, ppr. 
ing. in building iron ships a piece of canvas soaked In storing. [< ME. store,,, also astoren, astwien, < 
OF. estorer, esturer, estaurer, make, build, es- 
tablish, provide, furnish, store, < L. instaware, 
renew, repair, make, ML. also provide, store, < 
in, in, to, + 'staurare, set up, place (found also 
-iig. In building iron ships a pie 
red lead is used to make water-tight joints where calking 
is difficult. 
Stop-wheel (stop'hwel), . See Geneva move- 
ment, under movement. 
Stop-work (stop'werk), n. A device attached i n restaurare, restore), < "staurvs, fixed, = Gr. 
to the barrel of a watch, musical box, etc., to 
prevent overwinding. 
storH, a. A Middle English form of stoor 1 . 
Stor 2 t, [ME., < AS. stor, incense, storax (= 
, n., an upright pole, a stake, cross, = 
Skt. sthdvara, fixed, = AS. steor, a rudder, etc.; 
from the root of stand: see stand. Cf. restore, 
instauration, etc. Hence store s , n., storage, 
W. ystor, resin, rosin), < L. storax, storax: see story 2 , etc.] 1. To provide; furnish; supply; 
storax.'] Incense. 
equip; outfit. 
Thet Stor signefled Gode werkes, for ase se smech of u Cytee of the World is so wel stored of Schippes as is 
the store wanne hit is i-do into the ueree and goth upward that. Mandemlle, Travels, p. 207. 
to the heuene and to Gode warde Swo amuntel si gode 
biddinge to gode of tho herte of tho gode cristenemnnne. 
Old Eny. Misc. (ed. Morris), p. 28. 
storable (stor'a-bl), a. [< store + -able.'] 
Capable of being stored. B. S. Ball, Exper. 
Mechanics, p. 262. 
Storage magazine. Same as magazine, 1 (a). Stor- 
age warehouse. See warehouse. 
Storage-bellows (stor'aj -bel'oz), n. See or- 
l, 6. 
Her M(nd wlU| thousand virtues stor'd. 
Prior, Ode to the King after the Queen's Death, st. 35. 
I believe for Greek & Latin there come very few lads so 
well stored to the University. 
William Lloyd, in Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 188. 
2. To stock with provisions; provision; re- 
storage (stor'aj), . [< store^ + -age.-] 1. The i enish- 
act of storing, in any sense ; specifically, the ' 
keeping of goods in a store, warehouse, or other 
place of deposit. 2. The price charged or paid 
for keeping goods in a storehouse Cold stor- 
age, storage in refrigerating chambers or other places 
sta^&sss^ffig ^^^r T ^r forpres - 
Alle thine castles ich habbe wel istored. 
Layamon, 1. 13412. 
Backe to the yle of Alango, where some of vs went a 
londe ... to store vs of newe vytaylles. 
Sir R. Ouylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 59. 
ervation or safe-keeping ; warehouse. 
Now was stored 
In the sweet-smelling granaries all the hoard 
Of golden corn. 
storax (sto'raks), n. [= F. storax, styrax, < L. William Morris, Earthly Paradise I. 3ft 
storax, styrax, < Gr. ortpof, a sweet-smelling 4. To lay up in reserve; accumulate; hoard: 
resin so called, also a tree producing it.] 1. often with up. 
A solid resin resembling benzoin, with the fra- According to Sir W. Thomson a single Faure cell of the 
grance of vanilla, formerly obtained from a spiral form, weighing 166 Ibs., can store 2,000,000 foot- 
small tree, Styrax officinalis, of Asia Minor and ponn^rfjMg*^ Enmgy ^ Nature (lgt ^ p m 
Syria. It was in use from ancient times down to the 
close of the last century, but has disappeared from the 
market, the trees having been mostly reduced to bushes 
by excessive lopping. 
This, that, and ev'ry thicket doth transpire 
More sweet than storax from the hallowed fire. 
Herrick, Apparition of his Mistresse. gtore 3 ( S t6r), n. and a. [< ME. stor, store, stoor 
2. The tree yielding storax, or some other tree ( c f. w. ystdr = Gael, stor, < E.), < OF. estore, 
or shrub of the same genus. Among the American estoire, estorie, provisions, store, a fleet, navy, 
species.Sfj/razCWtfontteaisahandsomeCalifornianshrub. armv < ML. staurum (also, after OF., storium), 
See cut in next column. -Liquid storax, a balsam known *' j n sta,irum, store, < L. instaware, re- 
from ancient times with the true storax, obtained by boil- ' ,T ' ,,irlo f,, m Jr.ro- 
ing and pressing from the inner bark of the Oriental sweet- new, restore, ML. also provide, furnish, store . 
gum tree, Lvjuidambar orientals, itself also called liquid- gee store 3 , V.~] I. n. 1 . That which IS provided 
ambar. It is a semi fluid adhesive substance with the or f urn i s h e( i for use as needed ; a stock accu- 
properties of a stimulant expectorant, but now scarcely ,,, n( ._j __ _ **- <, a annnlv a hoard- 
used in Western practice except as a constituent in the mulated as for future use , a supply , a nc arc ., 
compound tincture of benzoin (resembling friars' balsam : specifically, m the plural, articles, particularly 
see benzoin), and as an application for itch. It has long o f f oo d, accumulated for a specific object ; sup- 
been used in making incense and fumigating preparations, pjj eg ag o f food ammunition, arms, or cloth- 
Su^^^Ab^^MiSffirS ^g=' a8 ' milita . r y or naval stores; the winter 
Burma, from Altini/ia excelsa, known (together with the stores of a family. 
5f. To restore. 
Keppit the fro combraunse & fro cold deth, 
Storet thee to strenght & thi stythe londes, 
And dawly Mr distitur of hir fader. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 726. 
, , 
last) in East Indian commerce as rose-maloes, rasamala, 
etc. In Formosa and southern China a dry terebinthinous 
resin of the same character is derived from Liyuidambar 
Formosana (a species recently identified). An American 
tlquidambar, or liquid storax, or a substitute for it, is pro- 
cured as natural exudation or by incision from the bark 
375 
He . . kepte hir to his usage and his store. 
Chaucer, flood Women, 1. 2337. 
500 pounds of hard bread, sleeping-bags, and assorted 
subsistence stores were landed from the floe. 
Sehley and Soley, Rescue of Greely, p. 77. 
With store at ladies, whose bright eyes 
Rain influence, and judge the pi i?> 
.W //(.in, I.' Allegro, 1. 121. 
3. A place where supplies, as provisions, am- 
munition, arms, clothing, or goods of any kind, 
are kept for future use or distribution ; a store- 
house; a warehouse; a magazine. 
Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . . 
Concocted and adjusted, they le.lii. . .1 
To blackest grain, and \n\ustore eonvey'd. 
Milt:,,,, \'. L., vi. 615. 
Hence 4. A place where goods are kept for 
sale by either wholesale or retail ; a shop : as, 
a book-store; a dry-goods store. See note un- 
der shop 1 , 2. [U. S. and British colonies.] 
Stores, as the shops are called. 
Capt. B. Hall, Travels in N. A., I. 8. 
Bill of stores. See MP. Bonded store. See bonded. 
Cooperative store. See cooperative. Fancy store. 
See /OIK-;/. General-order store, a customs warehouse 
in which goods are stored temporarily, as unclaimed, or 
arriving in advance of invoice or transportation papers, 
or through other like cause of detention. Such goods are 
obtainable only on a general order. General store, a 
store or shop where goods of all ordinary kinds are kept 
for sale ; especially, such a store in a country village or at 
cross-roads. In store, laid up; on hand; ready to be 
produced : as, we know not what the future has in store 
for us. 
I have an hour's talk in store for you. 
Shalt., J. C., ii. 2. 121. 
Marine, ordnance, public stores. See the qualifying 
words. Sea-stores, provisions and supplies on shipboard 
for use at sea. Compare ship-stores. Ship-stores, pro- 
visions and supplies for use on board ships at sea or in 
port: such supplies are sealed, as non-dutiable, by the 
customs officers. Small stores, in a man-of-war, a gen- 
eral term embracing tinware, tobacco, soap, razors, brush- 
es, thread, needles, etc., issued and charged to the men 
by the paymaster.- Subsistence stores. See subsistence. 
To set store by. See teti, v. t ., 18. To tell no store 
Oft, to make no account of ; set no store by. 
I ne telle of laxatyves no store, 
For they ben venymous, I woot it weel ; 
I hem diffye, I love hem never a deel. 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 334. 
II. a. If. Hoarded; laid up: as, store linen ; 
store fruit. 
Of this treasure . . . the gold was accumulate, and store 
treasure ; . . . but the silver is still growing. 
Bacon, Holy War. 
2. Containing stores; set apart for receiving 
stores or supplies. Compare store-city. 3. Ob- 
tained at a store or shop; purchased or pur- 
chasable at a shop or store : as, store clothes ; 
store teeth (humorously used for false teeth). 
This word in rural or frontier use is commonly opposed 
to home-made, and implies preference ; as, stylish stare 
curtains ; in town use it is usually opposed to made to 
order, and implies disparagement : as, clumsy store boots. 
[Colloq., U. S.] Store casemate. Same as barrack ease- 
mate (which see, under barrack). Store cattle, lean cat- 
tle bought for fattening by squatters who find that they 
have more grass than the natural increase of their herd 
requires. [Australia,] 
Oh, we are not fit for anything but store cattle : we are 
all blady grass. Mrs. Campbell Praed, Head Station, p. 74. 
Store pay, payment for country produce, labor, etc., 
by goods from a store, in lieu of cash ; barter. [Rural, 
U.S.] 
See, a girl has just arrived with a pot of butter to trade 
off for store pay. She wants in exchange a yard of calico, 
a quarter of tea, . . . and a bottle of rum. 
Capt. Priest's Adventures, p. 54. (Bartlett.) 
Store 4 t, n. A Middle English form of stour*. 
store 5 (stor), . [< F. store, a window-shade, 
spring-blind, roller-blind, < L. storea, a mat.] 
A window-shade: the French term used in 
English for such a shade when of decorative 
character, especially when of French manufac- 
ture. 
store-City (stor'sit'i), n. In the Old Testament, 
a city provided with stores of provisions for 
troops. 
He [Solomon] built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all 
the store cities, which he built in Hamath. 
.2 Chron. vlii. 4. 
store-farm (stor' farm), . A stock-farm; a 
cattle-farm; a sheep-farm. Scott, Heart of Mid- 
Lothian, xlii. [Scotch.] 
store-farmer (stor'far'mer), n. Same as stock- 
farmer. [Scotch.] 
storehouse (st6r'hous),w. 1. A house in which 
things are stored; a building for the storing 
of grain, food-stuffs, or goods of any kind; a 
magazine ; a repository ; a warehouse ; a store. 
They ne'er cared for us yet : suffer us to famish, and 
their store-houses crammed with grain. 
Shak., Cor., 1. 1. 83. 
2f. A store ; a plentiful supply. 
