3. The state of being accumulated; hoard. Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? 4. Storehouse; magazine.

Deuteronomy.

Sulphurous and nitrous feam, Concocted and adusted, they reduc'd To blackest grain, and into store convey'd. Milt. STORE. adj. Hoarded; laid up; accumulated.

What floods of treasure have flowed into Europe by that action, so that the cause of Christendom is raised since twenty times told: of this treasure the gold was accumulate and store treasure; but the silver is still growing. Bacon. To STORE. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To furnish; to replenish.

Wise Plato said the world with men was stor'd, That succour each to other might afford. Denb. Her face with thousand beauties blest; Her mind with thousand virtues ster'd; Her power with boundless joy confest; Her person only not ador'd.

2. To stock against a future time.

Prier.

Some were of opinion that it were best to stay where they were, until more aid and store of vietuals were come; but others said the enemy vere but barely stored with victuals, and_therefore could not long hold out.

Knolles.

STO'RER. n. s. [from store.] One who lays up.

STORIED. adj. [from story.] Furnished with stories; adorned with historical pictures.

Let my due feet never fail
To walk the studious cloisters pale,
And love the high embowed roof,
With antick pillar massy proof;
And storied windows, richly dight,
Casting a dim religious light.

Milton.

Some greedy minion or imperious wife The trophied arches, storied halls, invade. Pope. STORK. n. s. [rrone, Saxon; ciconia, Lat.] A bird of passage, famous for the regularity of its departure.

Its beak and legs are long and red; it feeds upon serpents, frogs, and insects: its plumage would be quite white, were not the extremity of its wings, and also some part of its head and thighs, black: it sits for thirty days, and lays but four eggs: they go away in the middle of August, and return in spring. Calmet. The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times. Feremiab.

Who bid the stork, Columbus like, explore Heavens not his own, and worlds unknown before?

Who calls the council, states the certain day, Who forms the phalanx, and who points the way? Pope. STO'RKSBILL.n.s. [geranium, Lat.] An herb. Ainsworth. STORM. n. 5. [ystorm, Welsh ; storm, Saxon; storm, Dutch; stormo, Italian.] 1. A tempest; a commotion of the elements.

O turn thy rudder hitherward a while, Here may thy storm-beat vessel safely ride.

Spenser. We hear this fearful tempest sing, Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm. Sbaksp. Them she upstays, mindless the while Herself, though fairest unsupported flower, From her best prop so far, and storm so nigh.

Milton. Sulphurous hail shot after us in storm. Milton. Then stay, my child! storms beat, and rolls the

main;

Oh beat those storms, and roll the seas, in vain ! Pope. 2. Assault on a fortified place.

How by storm the walls were won, Or how the victor sack'd and burnt the town. Dryden

3. Commotion; sedition; tumult; clamour; bustle.

Whilst I in Ireland nourish a mighty band, I will stir up in England some black storm. Sbabspeare.

Her sister

Began to scold and raise up such a storm,
That mortal ears might hardly endure the din.
Shakspeare.

4. Affliction; calamity; distress.

Pope.

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. 5. Violence; vehemence; tumultuous force.

As oft as we are delivered from those either imminent or present calamities, against the storm and tempest whereof we all instantly craved favour from above, let it be a question what we should render unto God for his blessings, universally, sensibly, and extraordinarily bestowed. Hooker.

To STORM. v. a. [from the noun.] To attack by open force.

From ploughs and harrows sent to seek renown, They fight in fields, and storm the shaken town. Dryden.

There the brazen tow'r was storm'd of old, When Jove descended in almighty gold. Pope. TO STORM, υ. n.

1. To raise tempests.

scoure.

So now he storms with many a sturdy stoure, So now his blustering blast each coast doth Spenser. 2. To rage; to fume; to be loudly angry. Hoarse, and all in rage, As mock'd they storm. Milton. When you return, the master storms, the lady Swift.

scolds.

While thus they rail, and scold, and storm, It passes but for common form.

STO'RMY. adj. [from storm.] 1. Tempestuous.

• Swift.

Bellowing clouds burst with a' stormy sound, And with an armed winter strew the ground.

Addison.

The tender apples, from their parents rent By stormy shocks, must not neglected lie.

2. Violent; passionate.

Philips.

STORY. n. 5. [rten, Saxon; storie, Dut. storia, Italian; ἱςυρία.]

1. History; account of things past.

The fable of the dividing of the world between the three sons of Saturn, arose from the true story of the dividing of the earth between the three brethren, the sons of Noah. Raleigh.

Thee I have heard relating what was done Ere my remembrance: now hear me relate My story, which perhaps thou hast not heard.

Milton.

The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story, and are related by the Greek and Latin authors. Temple.

Matters of fact, concerning times, places, persons, actions, which depend upon story, and the relation of others, these things are not capable of being proved by such scientifical principles.

Wilkins. Governments that once made such a noise, as founded upon the deepest counsels and the strongest force, yet by some slight miscarriage, which let in ruin upon them, are now so utterly extinct, that nothing remains of them but a name; nor are there the least traces of them to be found, but only in story. 2. Small tale; petty narrative; account of a single incident.

Watsen.

Sonnets or elegies to Chloris Might raise a house about two stories; A lyrick ode would slate; a catch Would tile; an epigram would thatch. Swift, To STORY. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. 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.

T is not vain or fabulous What the sage poets, taught by th' heavenly muse, Storied of old in high immortal verse, Of dire chimeras and enchanted isles, And rifted rocks whose entrance leads to hell.

Milton.

It is storied of the brazen Colossus, in the island of Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high; the thumbs of it being so big, that no man could grasp one of them with both his arms. Wilkins. Recite them, nor in erring pity fear

To wound with storied griefs the filial ear. Pope. 2. 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 fiuid, must have a

Earth doth not strain water so finely as sand.

3. To squeeze in an embrace.

Bacon.

I would have strain'd him with a strict embrace;

But through my arms he slipt and vanish'd. Dryd. Old Evander with a close embrace Strain'd his departing friend, and tears o'erflow'd his face. Dryden.

4. To sprain; to weaken by too much violence.

The jury make no more scruple to pass against an Englishman and the queen, though it be to strain their oaths, than to drink milk unstrained. Spenser.

Prudes decay'd about may tack, Strain their necks with looking back. 5. To put to its utmost strength.

Swift.

By this we see, in a cause of religion, to how desperate adventures men will strain themselves for relief of their own part, having law and authority against them. Hooker.

Too well I wote my humble vaine, And how my rhimes been rugged and unkempt; Yet as 1 con my cunning I will strain. Spenser. Thus mine enemy fell,

And thus I set my foot on 's neck; even then The princely blood flows in his cheek; he sweats, Strains his young nerves, and puts himself in posture

That acts my words.

Shakspeare.

My earthly by his heavenly overpower'd, Which it had long stood under, strain'd to th'

height

In that celestial colloquy sublime,
As with an object that excels the sense,
Dazzled and spent, sunk down.

Milton.

The lark sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. Shakspeart.

He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth Is forc'd and strained: in his looks appears A wild distracted fierceness.

TO STRAIN. v. n.

1. To make violent efforts.

Denbam.

To build his fortune I will strain a little, For 't is a bend in men.

You stand like greyhounds in the slips.

Shakspeare.

Straining upon the start.

Shakspeare.

They strain,

That death may not them idly find t' attend Their certain last, but work to meet their end. Daniel.

Straining with too weak a wing, We needs will write epistles to the king. Pope.

2. To be filtered by compression.

Cæsar thought that all sea sands had natural springs of fresh water: but it is the sea water; because the pit filled according to the measure of the tide; and the sea-water, passing or strain ing through the sands, leaveth the saltness behind them. Bacon.

STRAIN.n. s. [from the verb.] 1. An injury by too much violence. Credit is gained by custom, and seldom recovers a strain; but, if broken, is never well set again. Temple.

In all pain there is a deformity by a solution of continuity, as in cutting; or a tendency to solution, as in convulsions or strains.

Grew

Turn then to Pharamond and Charlemagne, And the long heroes of the Gallick strain. Prior, 3. Hereditary disposition.

Amongst these sweet knaves and all this courtesy! the strain of man's bred out into baboon and monkey.

Shakspeare

Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, propagated, spoil the strain of a nation. Tillotson. 4. A style or manner of speaking.

According to the genius and strain of the book of Proverbs, the words wisdom and righteousness are used to signify all religion and virtue. Tillotson.

In our liturgy are as great strains of true sublime eloquence, as are any where to be found in our language. Swift. Macrobius speaks of Hippocrates' knowledge in very lofty strains.

3. Song; note; sound.

Baker.

Wilt thou love such a woman? what, to make thee an instrument, and play false strains upon thee?

Sbakspeare.

Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed

Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear

Of Pluto, to have quite set free

His half-regain'd Eurydice.

Milton.

Their heav'nly harps a lower strain began,

And in soft musick mourn the fall of man.

Dryden.

7. Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Because hereticks have a strain of madness, he applied her with some corporal chastisements, which with respite of time might haply reduce her to good order. Hayward.

8. Manner of speech or action.

Such take too high a strain at the first, and are magnanimous more than tract of years can uphold; as was Scipio Africanus, of whom Livy saith, " ultima primis cedebant." Bacon. STRAINER.n.s. [from strain.) An instrument of filtration.

The excrementitious moisture passeth in birds through a finer and more delicate strainer than it doth in beasts; for feathers pass through quills, and hair through skin.

Bacon.

Shave the goat's shaggy beard, lest thou too late

In vain shouldst seek a strainer to dispart
The husky terrene dregs from purer must.

Philips.

The stomach and intestines are the press, and the lacteal vessels the strainers, to separate the pure emulsion from its feces. Arbuthnot.

VOL. IV.

These, when condens'd, the airy region pours On the dry earth in rain or gentle showers; Th' insinuating drops sink through the sand, And pass the porous strainers of the land.

Blackmore.

STRAIT. adj. [estroit, Fr.stretto, Italian.] 1. Narrow; close; not wide. Witnesses, like watches, go Just as they 're set, too fast or slow; And, where in conscience they 're straight lac'd, 'T is ten to one that side is cast. Hudibras.

They are afraid to meet her, if they have missed the church; but then they are more afraid to see her, if they are laced as strait as they can possibly be. 2. Close; intimate.

Law.

He, forgetting all former injuries, had received that naughty Plexirtus into a straight degree of favour: his goodness being as apt to be deceived, as the other's craft was to deceive.

He now, forsooth, takes on him to reform Some certain ediets, and some strait decrees That lay too heavy on the commonwealth.

Proceed no straiter 'gainst our uncle Glo'ster, Shakspeare. Than from the evidence of good esteem He be approv'd in practice culpable. Shakspeare.

4. Difficult; distressful.

5. It is used in opposition to crooked, but is then more properly written straight. [See STRAIGHT.]

A bell or a cannon may be heard beyond a hill which intercepts the sight of the sounding body; and sounds are propagated as readily through crooked pipes as through strait ones.

STRAIT. n. S.
1. A narrow pass, or frith.

Nerwton,

Plant garrisons to command the streights and

narrow passages.

Spenser.

Honour travels in a streight so narrow,

Where one but goes abreast.

Sbakspeare.

Fretum Magellanicum, or Magellan's straits.

Abbot.

They went forth unto the straits of the mountain.

Judith.

The Saracens brought, together with their victories, their language and religion into all that coast of Africk, even from Egypt to the streights of Gibraltar.

2. Distress; difficulty.

Brerewood.

The independent party, which abhorred all motions towards peace, were in as great streights as the other how to carry on their designs.

Clarendon.

It was impossible to have administered such advice to the king, in the streight he was in, which, being pursued, might not have proved inconvenient. Clarendon.

Thyself Bred up in poverty and streights at home, Lost in a desart here, and hunger-bit. Milton. Thus Adam, sore beset, replied: O Heav'n! in evil streight this day I stand Before my Judge.

Milton,

'T is hard with me, whatever choice I make;

I must not merit you, or must forsake:
But in this streight to honour I'll be true,
And leave my fortune to the gods and you.

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Dryden