store

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

In the United States and Canada, shops of every kind for the sale of goods whether at wholesale or retail, are commonly called stores. Thus we have dry goods stores, shoe stores, book stores, hardware stores, etc. etc. This use of the word, whose proper meaning is a magazine or storehouse, where merchandise or movable property is kept, seems to arise from that tendency to the magniloquent with which Americans have been charged.

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Store
·adj Accumulated; hoarded. II. Store ·vt Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or re...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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·add. ·- A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, ·esp. o...

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·vt To store again; as, the goods taken out were re-stored. ...

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store pay
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
store-keeper
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store-ship
A government vessel appropriated for carrying munitions and stores. ...

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to set store by
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
bill of store
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boatswain's store-room
Built expressly for boatswain's stores, on a platform or light deck. ...

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captain's store-room
A place of reserve on the platform deck, for the captain's wines and sea-stores. ...

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carpenter's store-room
An apartment built below, on the platform-deck, for keeping the carpenter's stores and spare tools i...

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lieutenant's store-room
More commonly called the ward-room store-room (which see). ...

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naval store-ship
A government vessel, appropriated to carrying stores and munitions of war to different stations. ...

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