The ships are fraught with store of victuals.
--Bacon.
With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain
influence, and give the prize. --Milton.
2. A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a
storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
3. Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or
retail; a shop. [U.S. & British Colonies]
4. pl. Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some
specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms,
ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a
ship, of a family.
His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry.
--Chaucer.
{In store}, in a state of accumulation; in keeping; hence, in
a state of readiness. ``I have better news in store for
thee.'' --Shak.
{Store clothes}, clothing purchased at a shop or store; -- in
distinction from that which is home-made. [Colloq. U.S.]
{Store pay}, payment for goods or work in articles from a
shop or store, instead of money. [U.S.]
{To set store by}, to value greatly; to have a high
appreciation of.
{To tell no store of}, to make no account of; to consider of
no importance.
Syn: Fund; supply; abundance; plenty; accumulation;
provision.
Usage: {Store}, {Shop}. The English call the place where
goods are sold (however large or splendid it may be) a
shop, and confine the word store to its original
meaning; viz., a warehouse, or place where goods are
stored. In America the word store is applied to all
places, except the smallest, where goods are sold. In
some British colonies the word store is used as in the
United States.
Dora stored what little she could save. --Tennyson.
2. To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or
furnish against a future time.
Her mind with thousand virtues stored. --Prior.
Wise Plato said the world with men was stored.
--Denham.
Having stored a pond of four acres with carps,
tench, and other fish. --Sir M. Hale.
3. To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for
preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.