2. Space for the safe keeping of goods.
3. The price changed for keeping goods in a store. Storage battery. (Physics) See the Note under Battery.
STORAX
Sto"rax, n. Etym: [L. storax, styrax, Gr. Styrax.]
Defn: Any one of a number of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most common of these is liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant.
Note: A yellow aromatic honeylike substance, resembling, and often confounded with, storax, is obtained from the American sweet gum tree (Liquidambar styraciflua), and is much used as a chewing gum, called sweet gum, and liquid storax. Cf. Liquidambar.
STORE Store, n. Etym: [OE. stor, stoor, OF. estor, provisions, supplies, fr. estorer to store. See Store, v. t.]
1. That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number. 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.