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Word Meanings - STOREROOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.

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  • STORER
    One who lays up or forms a store.
  • STORY-WRITER
    1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
  • STORMING
    from Storm, v. Storming party , a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.
  • STORYBOOK
    A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • STORED
    Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity. It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot.
  • 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.
  • STORM
    A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like. Note: Storm is often used in the formation of self-explained compounds; as, storm-presaging,
  • 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
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • STORY-TELLER
    1. One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller. 2. An historian; -- in contempt. Swift. 3. A euphemism or child's word for "a liar."
  • REPOSITORY
    A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository. Locke.
  • STORK-BILLED
    Having a bill like that of the stork.
  • STORMINESS
    The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.
  • STOREY
    See STORY
  • STORMILY
    In a stormy manner.
  • STORM-BEAT
    Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. Spenser.
  • STORMWIND
    A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm. Longfellow.
  • STOREHOUSE
    1. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse. Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto Egyptians. Gen. xli.
  • STORIFY
    To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story.
  • QUESTORSHIP
    The office, or the term of office, of a questor.
  • QUAESTOR
    See QUESTOR
  • 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.)
  • 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.
  • PASTORLESS
    Having no pastor.
  • CASTOR
    A genus of rodents, including the beaver. See Beaver. 2. Castoreum. See Castoreum. 3. A hat, esp. one made of beaver fur; a beaver. I have always been known for the jaunty manner in which I wear my castor. Sir W. Scott. 4. A heavy quality
  • CLERESTORY
    See CLEARSTORY
  • IMPOSTOR
    One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton. Syn. -- Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See Deceiver.
  • FALDISTORY
    The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. (more info) faldstuol; faldan, faltan, to fold + stuol stool. So called because it could be folded or laid together. See Fold, and
  • POSTORAL
    Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth.

 

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