Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STO'RI-ER, n.

A relater of stories; a historian. [Not in use.]

STO'RI-FY, v.t.

To form or tell stories. [Not in use.] – Ch. Relig. Appeal.

STOR'ING, ppr.

Laying up in a store or warehouse.

STORK, n. [Sax. storc; Dan. and Sw. stork.]

A large fowl of the genus Ardea or Heron group.

STORK'S-BILL, n.

A plant of the genus Geranium.

STORM, n. [Sax. storm; D. Dan. and Sw. storm; G. sturm; W. ystorm; D. stooren, to disturb; W. ystwriaw, Eng. to stir. In Italian, stormo is a fight, combat, a band or troop; stormire, to make a noise; stormeggiare, to throng together, to ring the alarm bell. The Italian seems to be from L. turma. The primary sense of storm is a rushing, raging or violent agitation.]

1. A violent wind; a tempest. Thus a storm of wind, is correct language, as the proper sense of the word is rushing, violence. It has primarily no reference fall of rain or I snow. But as a violent wind is often attended with rain or I snow, the word storm has come to be used, most improperly, for a fall of rain or snow without wind. O beat those storms, and roll the seas in vain. – Pope.
2. A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by sealing the walls, forcing the gates and the like. – Dryden.
3. Violent civil or political commotion; sedition; insurrection; also, clamor; tumult; disturbance of the public peace. I will stir up in England some black storms. – Shak. Her sister / Began to scold and raise up such a storm. – Shak.
4. Affliction; calamity; distress; adversity. A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. – Pope.
5. Violence; vehemence; tumultuous force. – Hooker.

STORM, v.i.

1. To raise a tempest. – Spenser.
2. To blow with violence; impersonally; as, it storms.
3. To rage; to be in a violent agitation of passion; to fume. The master storms.

STORM, v.t.

To assault; to attack and attempt to take by scaling the walls, forcing gates or breaches and the like; as, to storm a fortified town.

STORM'-BEAT, a. [storm and beat.]

Beaten or impaired by storms. – Spenser.

STORM'ED, pp.

Assaulted by violence.

STORM'FUL, a.

Abounding with storms.

STORM'FUL-NESS, n.

Abundance of storms. – Coleridge.

STORM'I-NESS, n.

Tempestuousness; the state of being agitated by violent winds.

STORM'ING, ppr.

Attacking with violent force; raging.

STORM'-MEN-A-CING, a.

Threatening a storm.

STORM'-PRE-SAG-ING, a.

Presaging a storm. – Hermans.

STORM'-TOSS-ED, a.

Tossed by storms or high winds.

STORM'-VEX-ED, a.

Harassed with storms. – Coleridge.

STORM'Y, a.

1. Tempestuous; agitated with furious winds; boisterous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week.
2. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks. – Addison.
3. Violent; passionate. [Unusual.]

STORTH'ING, n. [Dan. stor, great, and ting, court.]

The parliament of Norway, elected once in three years.

STO'RY, n. [Sax. stær, ster; It. storia; L. historia; Gr. ιστορια.]

1. A verbal narration or recital of a series of facts or events. We observe in children a strong passion for bearing stories.
2. A written narrative of a series of facts or events. There is probably on record no story more interesting than that of Joseph in Genesis.
3. History; a written narrative or account of past transactions, whether relating to nations or individuals. The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story. – Temple.
4. Petty tale; relation of a single incident or of trifling incidents. – Addison.
5. A trifling tale; a fiction; a fable; as, the story of a fairy. In popular usage, story is sometimes a softer term for a lie.
6. A loft; a floor; or a set of rooms on the same floor or level. A story comprehends the distance from one floor to another; as, a story of nine or ten feet elevation. Hence each floor terminating the space is called a story; as a house of one story, of two stories, of five stories. The farm houses in New England have usually two stories; the houses in Paris have usually five stories, a few have more; those in London four. But in the United States, the floor next the ground is the first story; in France and England, the first floor or story, is the second from the ground.

STO'RY, v.t.

1. To tell in historical relation; to narrate. How worthy he is, I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing. – Shak. It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high. – Wilkins. [This verb is chiefly used in the passive participle.]
2. To range under one another. [Little used.] – Bentley.

STO'RY-ING, ppr.

Telling in historical relation.

STO'RY-POST, n.

A vertical post used to support a floor or wall.

STO'RY-TELL-ER, n. [story and tell.]

1. One who tells stories; a narrator of a series of incidents; as, an amusing story-teller.
2. A historian; in contempt.
3. One who tells fictitious stories.