storehouse 
And greatly joyed merry tales to faine, 
Of which a stonhmae did with her remain. 
Spenser, . Q., II. vi. 8. 
storekeeper (stor'ke'ptr), n. 1. One who has 
the care or charge of a store or stores, (a) A 
shopkeeper. [U.S.] (6) An officer in a dockyard in charge 
of stores and storehouses; the superintendent of a store- 
house in n navy. yard, (c) Milit., a commissioned officer 
in the United States army who has charge of the mili- 
tary stores at depots and arsenals. A military storekeeper 
is an officer of the quartermaster's department; an ord- 
nance storekeeper, of the ordnance department ; a medi- 
cal ttorekeeper, of the medical department. These officers 
have the rank and pay of mounted captains in the army, 
hut arc not in the line of promotion. 
2. Figuratively, an article in a stock of goods 
that remains so long on hand as to be unsalable. 
[Slang, U. S.] 
storekeeping (stor'ke"ping), n. The act of tak- 
ing charge of stores or a store. 
storeman (stor'raan). n. ; pi. sloremen (-men). 
1 . A man in charge of stores or supplies : as, 
the storeman's stock of bolts and screws. 2. 
A man employed in a storehouse for the work 
of storing goods. 
The question of wages of shifters and store-men has been 
referred to arbitration. 
WeeMyEcho, Sept. 5, 1885. (Encyc. Diet.) 
store-master (st6r'mas' ( 'ter), ii. The tenant of 
a store-farm. [Scotch.] 
Storer (stor'er), n. [< store 3 + -er 1 .] One who 
lays up or accumulates a store. 
Storeria (sto-re'ri-a), n. [NL. (Baird and Gi- 
rard, 1853), 'named' after Dr. D. H. Storer, an 
American naturalist.] A genus of harmless 
colubriform serpents of North America, of the 
family Colubridse. Two common species of the 
United States are S. dekayi, and S. occipitoma- 
mlata, the spotted-neck snake. 
Store-room (stor'rom), n. A room set apart for 
stores or supplies, especially table and house- 
hold supplies. 
Miss .Tenkyna asked me if I would come and help her to 
tie up the preserves in the store-room. 
Mrs. Gatkell, Cranford, ii. 
store-ship (stor'ship), . A government vessel 
detailed to carry stores for the use of a fleet or 
garrison, or to store them in foreign ports. 
Storey, . See story 2 . 
storge (stor'ge), M. [< Gr. oroprf, natural love 
or affection, < artpyciv, love, as parents their 
children.] The strong instinctive affection of 
animals for their young ; hence, the attachment 
of parents for children, or of children for pa- 
rents ; parental or filial love. [Rare and tech- 
nical.] 
In the storge, or natural affections of divers animals to 
their young ones, . . . there appears in the parent mani- 
fest tokens of solicitousness, skill, and in some cases cour- 
age too. Boyle, Christian Virtuoso, pt. II. aph. viii. 
The innocence of infancy ... is the cause of the love 
called storge. Swedenborg, Conjugial Love (trans.), 395. 
storialt (sto'ri-al), a. [ME. storial, an aphetic 
form of historial.] 1. Historical. 
This is stoiiaJ sooth, it is no fable. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 702. 
2. Of the nature of a story. 
He shal fynde ynowe, grate and smale, 
Of storial thyng that toucheth gentillesse, 
And eek moralitee and hcolynesse. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Miller s Tale, 1. 71. 
storiated (sto'ri-a-ted), a. [Cf. historiated.'J 
Decorated with elaborate ornamental and illus- 
trative designs, as title-pages of books in the 
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in which 
the ornamentation often covered the entire 
page. 
The mania for the acquisition of donated title-pages has 
led to the cruel spoliation of thousands of rare old books. 
London Art Jour., No. 51, p. 91. 
Storied 1 (sto'rid), . [< story* + -ed 2 .] 1. 
Celebrated or recorded in story or history; as- 
sociated with stories, tales, or legends. 
To-morrow hurry through the fields 
Of Flanders to the storied Rhine ! 
M. Arnold, Calais Sands. 
2. Adorned with scenes from a story, or from 
history, executed by means of sculpture, paint- 
ing, weaving, needlework, or other art : as, sto- 
ried tapestries. 
Storied windows, richly dight, 
Casting a dim religious light. 
Milton, II Penseroso, 1. 159. 
Can storied urn, or animated bust, 
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? 
Gray, Elegy. 
Storied 2 (sto'rid), a. [Formerly also storeyed; 
< story 2 + -ed 2 .'] Having stories or stages : as, 
a four-storied building. 
storier (sto'ri-er), . [< story* + -<!.] A re- 
later of stories; a story-teller; a historian. 
5970 
The honeyed rhythm of this melodious storier. 
J. Rogers llees, Poetry of the Period (Bookworm, p. 65). 
storifyH (sto'ri-fi), c. t. [< storyl + L./oeere, 
make, do: see -fy.] To make or tell stories 
about. 
storify 2 (sto'ri-fi), c. t. ; pret. and pp. storijinl, 
ppr. storifying. [< story 2 + L. facerc, make, do : 
see -fy.] To range, as beehives over and un- 
der one another, in the form of stories. J'liiii. 
Diet. Apiculture, p. 67. [Rare.] 
storiologist (sto-ri-ol'o-jist), . [< storiolog-y + 
-ist.] A student or expounder of popular tales 
.mil legends; one who is versed in folk-lore. 
[Recent.] 
The resuscitation of the roe from its bones will recall to 
storiologists similar incidents in European and especially 
.Scandinavian and Icelandic folk-lore. 
.V. nnrl Q., 7th ser., I. 484, note. 
storiology (sto-ri-ol'o-ji), n. [< E. storyl + 
Gr. -Xoyia, < Myetv, speak : see -ology.] The 
science of folk-lore ; the study of popular tales 
and legends. [Recent.] 
1'or Chaucer's direct source, it might be well worth 
while for students of comparative storiology who have 
leisure ... to examine these and similar monkish col- 
lections of exempla [of the thirteenth century]. 
JV. and Q., 7th ser., I. 485. 
stork (stork), H. [< ME. stork, < AS. store = 
D. MLG. LG. stork = OHG. storah, MHG. G. 
starch (also OHG. store, MHG. G. dial, stork) 
= Icel. storkr = 8w. Dan. stork, a stork; cf. 
OBulg. struku, Bulg. striik, shtriik = Serv. shtrk 
= ORuss. sterkii, Russ. sterkhA = Lith. starkiis 
= Lett, starts = Hung, eszterag = Albanian 
sterkjok, a stork. The relation of the Teut. to 
the Slav, and other forms is undetermined. Cf. 
Gr. r6pyof, a vulture, ropyof vypoQoirtf, a swan.] 
A large altricial grallatorial bird, of the fam- 
ily Ciconiidx and especially of the subfamily 
Ciconiinse (which see for technical characters). 
The stork is related to the herons, spoonbills, and ibises, 
but not very closely to the cranes. There are several 
species, found in nearly all temperate and tropical re- 
gions. They are tall and stately birds, equaling the cranes 
and larger herons in stature, but are readily distinguished 
by many technical characters. Storks are wading birds, 
frequenting the vicinity of water ; but some of them be- 
come semi-domesticated, and often nest on buildings. 
Their fidelity and amiability are traditional. They feed 
chiefly on reptiles (as snakes and lizards), amphibians (as 
frogs), fishes, mollusks, and worms, but also sometimes 
capture small quadrupeds and birds. The best-known 
species is the common white stork of Europe, Ciconia 
alba; when adult, It is pure-white with black-tipped 
wings and reddish bill and feet; it Is about SI feet long, 
and stands 4 feet high. The black stork of" the same 
country is C. niyra, a rarer species. Various birds of dif- 
ferent countries, technically storks, are known by other 
names, as adjutant, marabou, maguari, jaJbiru, shell-ibif, 
and wood-ibis. See these words, and cuts under adjutant- 
bird, Ciconiidfe, Grallee,_iabint, opcnbill, Pelargomorpha, 
simbil, and Tantalus. Black-necked stork, Xenorhyn- 
chus australis, of India and Australia, related to the Amer- 
ican jabiru and African saddle-billed stork, the three being 
often placed in the genus Mycteria. Black stork. See 
def. Episcopal stork, Dissoura episcopus. See cut 
under Pelargomorpha. Giant Stork, the adjutant-bird. 
Hair-crested Stork, LeptoptOus (Cranopelanjus) ja- 
vanicus, a small and quite distinct species of marabou, re- 
lated to the adjutant, found in parts of India, Java, Su- 
matra, etc. Maguari Stork, Euxemira maguari. See 
maguari. Marabou Stork. See marabou, and cut un- 
der adjutant-bird. Pouched stork. Same as adjutant- 
bird. Saddle-billed stork, Ephippiorhynchus senega- 
lensis. See the generic name. Wnite-bellied stork, 
Sphenorhynchus abdimi. See cut under simbil. White 
stork. See def. 
stork-billed (stprk'bild), <?. Having a bill like 
a stork's, as a kingfisher of the genus Pelargoji- 
sis. See cut under Pelargopsis. 
Stork's-bill (stdrks'bil), n. 1. A plant of the ge- 
nus Erodium, particularly the heron's-bill, E. ei- 
cutarium (also 
called hemlock 
stork's-bill), s. 
low bushy herb 
with pinnate 
leaves, a most- 
ly Old World 
plant, abun- 
dantly natural- 
ized in many 
parts of the 
United States, 
perhaps indi- 
genous in the 
west. See /- 
filerilla. 2. 
A plant of the 
related ge- 
nus Pelargo- 
nium, which in- 
cludes the ge- 
raniums, etc., 
- Flowering Plant of Stork's-bill (Erodiu 
OI garaens. rteu/ariumi. a. one of the carpels. 
storm 
storm (storm), >i. [< ME. storm. < AS. storm, 
storm, = OS. MD. D. MLG. LG. storm = OHG. 
MHG. G. sturm = Icel. stormr = Sw. Dan. storm 
(not in Goth. ; cf. It. stormo, a fight, It. dial. 
sturm = Pr. estorn = OF. estour, estor, eatur (> 
E. stour 3 , a tumult, stir) = Ir. Gael, stoirm = 
Bret.ftottrm, a storm, all< Teut.); perhaps, with 
formative -m, from the root of stir 1 (/ slur. 
\/ star) or of L. stcrnere, strew : see stir 1 , strew.] 
1. A disturbance of the normal condition of the 
atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of un- 
usual direction or force, or by rain (often with 
lightning and thunder), snow, or hail, or by sev- 
eral of these phenomena in combination ; a tem- 
pest : also used with reference to precipitation 
only, as in hftil-gtorm, thunder-storm, snow- 
storm. A storm is usually associated with an areaof low 
pressure, and its intensity or violence depends upon the 
steepness of the density-gradients which produce it. The 
terms area of loiv pressure, cyclone, cyclonic storm, and 
storm are often used interchangeably. In area, of low 
pressure the primary reference is to the state of the ba- 
rometer, in cyclone it is to the gyratory character of the 
atmospheric circulation, and in storm to the disturbance 
of the weather : but each term is extended to include the 
whole of the attendant phenomena. 
And there arose a great st<fnn of wind. Mark iv. 37. 
Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, 
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. 
Shak., Lear, iii. 4. 29. 
2. Specifically (a) Technically, in nautical 
use, a wind of force 11 on the Beaufort scale, 
being that in which a man-of-war could carry 
only storm-staysails. 
The wind suddenly shifted in a heavy rain squall from 
SSE. to W. , and Increased to a storm ; at 12 noon the barom- 
eter read lowest, and the wind was blowing a storm. 
Monthly Weather Review (1887X p. 40. 
(6) A fall of snow, (c) A prolonged frost. [Prov. 
Eng.] Hence, figuratively 3. A tempestuous 
flight or descent of objects fiercely hurled : as, 
a storm of missiles. 
No drizzling shower, 
But rattling storm of arrows barb'd with flre. 
Milton, P. L., vi. 54. 
4. A violent disturbance or agitation of human 
society ; a civil, political, or domestic commo- 
tion ; a tumult ; a clamor. 
I will stir up in England some black storm 
Shall blow ten thousand souls to heaven or hell. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., ill. 1. 349. 
5. A destructive or overwhelming calamity; 
extremity of adversity or disaster. 
Having passed many bitter brunts and blastes of ven- 
geaunce, they dread no stormes of Fortune. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., February, Embleme. 
An old man, broken with the storms of state. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., iv. 2. 21. 
6. A vehement or passionate outbreak, as of 
some emotion, or of the expression of such 
emotion: as, a storm of indignation; a storm 
of applause; a storm of hisses. 
Mark'd you not how her sister 
Began to scold and raise up such a storm? 
Shak., T. of the S., i. 1. 177. 
Her bosom shaken with a sudden storm of sighs. 
Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 
7. Milit., a violent assault on a fortified place 
or strong position ; a dashing attempt by troops 
to capture a fortified place, as by scaling the 
walls or forcing the gates. 
How by storm the walls were won, 
Or how the victor sacked and burnt the town. 
Dryden. 
Cyclonic storm, one that accompanies or is caused by a 
cyclone. Electric storm. See electric. Eye of a storm, 
the culm region at the center of a violent cyclonic storm, 
where the clouds clear away and blue sky appears occur- 
ring mostly in the tropics, but also experienced more or 
less perfectly in higher latitudes. This phenomenon is 
due to the circumstance that the winds immediately bor- 
dering the central area blow circularly around it, leaving a 
region of calm. The centrifugal force of the wind inten- 
sifies the diminution of pressure, and develops a tendency 
toward a gently descending current from above, and a con- 
sequent clearing of the sky. High -area storm, a storm 
associated with an area of high pressure. Low-area 
storm. Same as cydonte storm. Magnetic, revolving, 
etc., storm. See the adjectives. Storm and stress [a 
translation of the German Sturm und Drang, alluding to 
a drama by Klinger, " Sturm und Drang "], a name given 
to a period in German literary history (about 1770 to 1790) 
influenced by a group of younger writers whose works were 
characterized by passion and reaction from the old meth- 
ods ; hence, a proverbial phrase for unrest or agitation. 
To take by storm, (a) HIM., to carry by assault. See 
def. 7. 
The recollection of the victory of Eoanoke imparted to 
the Federals that assurance which is a great element of 
success ; they knew that a battery could be taken by storm. 
Comte de Parts, Civil War In America (trans.), I. 687. 
(6) To captivate or carry away by surprising or delight- 
ing: as, the new singer has taken the town by storm.- 
Wind-storm, a storm with heavy wind, without precipi 
tation. =Syn. 1. Tempest, etc. See wintW. 
