The Collaborative International Dictionary
Store \Store\, n. [OE. stor, stoor, OF. estor, provisions, supplies, fr. estorer to store. See Store, v. t.]
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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. A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop. [U.S. & British Colonies]
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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.
In his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes.
--Shak.Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . . Concocted and adjusted, they reduced To blackest grain, and into store conveyed.
--Milton.
Usage examples of "store clothes".
She was amused to hear them swearing in pidgin when the run of the black cards went against them, but this morning had a special attraction in that Florsheim appeared among the boys dressed in store clothes: polished tan shoes, a suit that was not quite big enough for his huge frame, a shirt that bound a little at the collar, a knitted tie that hung awry and a tropical straw hat.
We stuffed enough envelopes to buy me thrift-store clothes and get a paper bag of fried chicken with paper napkins and coleslaw.
Anyhow, one day she ran off to Chicago with a handsome law clerk who wore store clothes and a gold stickpin.
I slept the night through, and got up before it was light, and had my breakfast, and put on my store clothes, and tied up some others and one thing or another in a bundle, and took the canoe and cleared for shore.
This decrepit, apologetic little shrimp in his Salvation Army Good Will Store clothes might be a real boon to me!
Kettleman had sixty dollars of his own, which he used to buy an outfit of store clothes in Kansas City.
Still, he had his place to store clothes and money, and once he returned to the Palace, to Tylin's apartments, he found out he had clothes to store in it.
The old oldtimers who wore store clothes but still kept their hair in braids.
Benito gave him a pair of blankets to roll up in, and he was sleeping the sleep of the exhausted before Benito had gotten into his store clothes.