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Bellowing clouds burst with a stormy sound. 
And with an armed winter strew the ground. Addison. 
Violent; passionate. 
STORNDORF, a small town of the west of Germany, 
in Hesse-Darmstadt, province of Upper Hesse. 
STORNOWAY, a parish of Scotland, in Ross-shire, in 
the island of Lewis, of great extent. It is of the figure of 
an irregular triangle, two of the sides of which are about 
ten miles, and the other about seven miles long. 
STORNOWAY, a town in the above parish, situated at 
the head of Loch Stornoway, upon a point or ness jutting 
into it, which, from a small origin, has of late, by the exer¬ 
tions of Lord Seaforth, arrived at considerable size and extent. 
The harbour of Stornoway is excellent and well frequented, 
and the principal source of employment is the prosecution of 
the white and herring fisheries. There were 44 vessels be¬ 
longing to it in 1808, the tonnage of which amounted to 
3612 tons, navigated by 156 men; also 104 boats, navigated 
by 562 men, who are occasionally employed in the fishery, 
although the whole does not belong to the place. In five 
years, ending July 1808, there were exported from Stornoway 
17,430 barrels of herrings; 719 tons of codandling; and oil, 
as is supposed, to the amount of 10,000/. It is a port of the 
custom-house, and has a post-office, and a regular packet. 
STORO, a small town of the Austrian states, in the 
Tyrol, on the Sarca, to the south-west of Trent. 
STORRINGTON, a town and parish of England, in 
Sussex, with a market on Wednesday, and two annual fairs, 
in May and November; 7 miles north-east of Arundel. 
STORRITHS, a township of England, in the parish of 
of Skipton, West Riding of Yorkshire. 
STORRS, a hamlet of England, in Westmoreland; 9 
miles west-by-north of Kendal. 
STORSIO, a large lake in the north of Sweden, province 
of Jamtland. It contains several islands, on two of which 
are villages; and it communicates with the gulf of Bothnia, 
through the medium of several other lakes and rivers. Lat. 
63. 10. N.'long. 14. 10. E. 
STORTH, a hamlet of England, in Westmoreland; 8| 
miles west of Kirkby Lonsdale. 
STORTH WOOD, a village of England, East Riding of 
Yorkshire; 7 miles south-west-by-west of Pocklington. 
STO'RY, s. [ftoep, Saxon; st.orie, Dutch; storia, 
Italian; t^oya, Gr.]—History; account of things past. 
Thee I have heard relating what was done 
Ere my remembrance : now hear me relate 
My story, which perhaps thou hast not heard. Milton. 
Small tale ; petty narrative; account of a single incident. 
—In the road between Bern and Soleurre, a monument 
erected by the republic of Bern tells us the story of an 
Englishman not to be met with in any of our own writers. 
Addison. —An idle or trifling tale; a petty fiction. 
These flaws and starts would well become 
A woman’s story at a winter’s fire, 
Authoriz’d by hergrandame. S/ia/cspeare. 
STO'RY, s. [Cfop, place. Skinner, and Dr. Johnson. 
—It is from stage; stagery, stayery, (the a broad) 
stawry, or story, i. e. a set of stairs. Mr. H. Tooke. See 
Stage.] A floor; a flight of rooms. 
Sonnets or elegies to Chloris, 
Might raise a house about two stories ; 
A lyric ode would slate; a catch 
Would tile; an epigram would thatch. Swiff. 
To STO'RY, v. a. To tell in history ; to relate.—How 
worthy he is, I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story 
him in his own hearing. Shakspeare. —To range one under 
another.—Because all the parts of an undisturbed fluid are of 
equal gravity, or gradually placed or storied, according to 
the difference of it; any concretion that can be supposed to 
be naturally and mechanically made in such a fluid, must 
have a like structure of its several parts; that is, either be all 
over of a similar gravity, or have the more ponderous parts 
nearer to its basis. Bentley. 
STO'RYTELLER, s. One who relates tales in conver¬ 
sation ; an historian, in contempt. 
In such a satire, all would seek a share, 
And every fool will fancy he is there ; 
Old storytellers too must pine and die. 
To see their antiquated wit laid by ; 
Like her who miss’d her name in a lampoon. 
And griev’d to find herself decay’d so soon. Dryden. 
STORZHEIM, a small town in the east of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Rhine. Population 1300. 
STOT, s. [pcob-hopp, Sax., “ s/o/-horse, caballus." 
Prompt. Parv. pcotue, Sax. equus vilis.] A horse. 
This reve sate upon a right good slot. 
That was all pomelee gray, and hight Scot. Chaucer. 
A young bullock or steer, stat, Swed. juvencus, Ihre.] 
This is common in the north of England. 
STOTE, s. A kind of weasel. See Stoat. 
STOTFIELD HEAD, a cape of Scotland, on the coast 
of Murray. Lat. 57. 42. N. long. 3. 10. W. 
STOTFOLD, a parish of England, in Bedfordshire; 6 
miles south-south-east of Biggleswade. 
STOTINGWAY, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Upway, Dorsetshire. 
STOVE, s. [s/oo, Icelandic, a fire-place; ptopa, Sax.; 
estuve, French; stove, Dutch.]—A hot-house; a place 
artificially made warm.—Fishermen who make holes in the 
ice, to dip up such fish with their nets as resort thither for 
breathing, light on swallows congealed in clods of a slimy 
substance, and carrying them home to their stoves, the 
warmth recovereth them to life and flight. Carew. —A 
place in which fire is made, and by which heat is com¬ 
municated.—If the season prove exceeding piercing, in your 
great house kindle some charcoals; and when they have done 
smoking, put them into a hole sunk a little into the floor, 
about the middle of it. This is the safest stove. Evelyn. 
Stoves should, in propriety, be distinguished from fire¬ 
places, from the fire being inclosed within the stove, and 
giving out its heat through the substance of the materials of 
which the stove is composed, to the air in the apartment; 
and in many stoves there are ingenious contrivances, to make 
a great quantity of air pass in contact with the heated surface 
of the stove, and be thus heated before passing off into the 
apartment. Fire-places, on the contrary, have the fire as 
open and as much exposed as possible, consistently with the 
carrying off of the smoke, in order that it may throw out ra¬ 
diant heat into the apartment. See the articles Fire-place, 
and Grate in this work. 
The ancients are supposed to have used stoves, in which 
the fire was not seen ; but on enquiring into the progress of 
the art of warming apartments economically, few traces re¬ 
main of the manner in which the ancients warmed their habi¬ 
tations. It is imagined they lighted the fire in a large tube 
in the middle of a room, of which the roof was open, and 
that the other apartments were warmed by portable braziers. 
In Seneca’s time, they began to construct tubes in the walls, 
to convey the heat into the upper apartments; the fire-places 
being still placed below. It appears, however, that this was 
the origin of flues for smoke and even of stoves; the situa¬ 
tion and proportions of which have successively undergone 
an infinity of changes, according to the localities, the wants 
of the inhabitants, or the style of the decorations. 
The ancients had the custom of heating apartments by 
fires placed under arches or vaults; but this was confined to 
palaces, and other edifices, where magnificence was aug¬ 
mented by prodigality ; and the vestiges that have been 
discovered among ancient ruins, sufficiently point out this 
as their destination. In digging, some years ago, for 
foundations in the city of Antun, one of these ovens was dis¬ 
covered under a mosaic pavement, with chimnies at each 
extremity. 
The northern Chinese have a method of warming their 
ground-floor, which resembles the ancient plan just men¬ 
tioned. The floors are made of tiles a foot square, and two 
inches thick; their corners being supported by bricks set 
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