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Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc. (more

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Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc. (more info) 1. The white of an egg.

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• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• EMBRYO SAC
  See EMBRYONIC
• FLOURY
  Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour. Dickens.
• EMBRYOTOMY
  The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• EMBRYON
  See EMBRYO
• MATTER
  1. To be of importance; to import; to signify. It matters not how they were called. Locke. 2. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. "Each slight sore mattereth." Sir P. Sidney.
• EMBRYOGRAPHY
  The general description of embryos.
• STORMING
  from Storm, v. Storming party , a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.
• STORM
  1. To raise a tempest. Spenser. 2. To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; -- used impersonally; as, it storms. 3. To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume. The
• STORYBOOK
  A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.
• EMBRYOTROPH
  The material from which an embryo is formed and nourished.
• STORED
  Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity. It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot.
• STORY
  1. A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record. One malcontent who did indeed get a name in story. Barrow. Venice, with its unique city and its Impressive story. Ed. Rev. The
• EMBRYOPLASTIC
  Relating to, or aiding in, the formation of an embryo; as, embryoplastic cells.
• STORMGLASS
  A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
• EMBRYONATE; EMBRYONATED
  In the state of, or having, an embryonal.
• EMBRYOLOGIST
  One skilled in embryology.
• STORK
  Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconidæ, having long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera. The European white stork
• STORE
  Accumulated; hoarded. Bacon.
• QUESTORSHIP
  The office, or the term of office, of a questor.
• QUAESTOR
  See QUESTOR
• PROEMBRYO
  The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo. The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.
• HISTORIC; HISTORICAL
  Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page. -- His*tor"ic*al*ness, n. -- His*to*ric"i*ty, n. There warriors frowning in historic brass. Pope. Historical painting, that branch of painting
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
• NESTORIAN
  An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ , and, hence, that it was improper to call
• RESTORATIVELY
  In a restorative manner.
• PREPOSTOR
  See PREPOSITOR
• PASTORSHIP
  Pastorate. Bp. Bull.
• CASTOR BEAN
  The bean or seed of the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi.)
• MONEMBRYONY
  The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo. -- Mon*em`bry*on"ic, a.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.