storeystoryn.

Brit.

/ˈstɔːri/, U.S.

/ˈstɔri/

Inflections: Plural stories, storeys.

Forms: Middle English storye, Middle English– story, 1500s store, 1500s storie, 1500s storrie, 1600s– storey.

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymon: story n.

Etymology: Apparently originally a specific use of story n., after post-classical Latin historia upper level in the walls of a building, especially of a church (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources), specific use of classical Latin historia history n.As an architectural term, post-classical Latin historia may originally have denoted a tier of painted windows or of sculptures on the front of a building: see story n. 2, and compare the Latin quot. 1398 and sense 2. Compare the following examples of the post-classical Latin use of historia in the architectural sense:a1300 Gesta Sacristarum in T. Arnold Memorials St. Edmund's Abbey (1892) II. 291 Qui [sc. Abbot Sampson, 1135–1211] tempore officii sui pro majori parte chorum consummavit, et unam istoriam in majori turre ad ostium occidentale [‘who in his period of office completed the choir for the main part and one storey in the main tower at the west door’].?a1330 Hugh Candidus Coenobii Burgensis Historia in J. Sparke Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores (1723) II. 93 In suo etiam tempore [sc. William de Waterville, 1155–75]..tres..hystoriæ magistræ turris erectæ sunt [‘also in his time three storeys of the main keep were built’].1339–40 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 97 Pro fenestris superioris istorie Noui Operis [‘for windows of the upper storey of the New Work’].1398 in J. Raine Hist. Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres (1839) p. clxxxi Supra quodlibet studium erit unum modicum et securum archewote, supra quod, spacio competenti interposito, erit una historia octo fenestrarum..et desuper istam historiam fenestrarum erunt honesta alours et bretesmontz batellata et kirnellata [‘above each study there will be one safe vault of moderate size, above which, with a suitable space set in between, there will be one storey of eight windows, and above that storey of windows there will be fine parapets and wooden towers, provided with battlements and crenellations’]. Now considered a distinct word from story n., and distinguished from it formally in British English by the standard spelling storey, while U.S. English retains story. The form with -e- is prescribed by British guides to English usage and spelling from at least the 1860s.

a. Each of the sections of a building comprising all the rooms that are on the same level; the room or set of rooms which comprise one such level; a floor.attic storey, basement storey, chamber storey, first storey, half-storey, etc.: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > floor or storey

stagea1300

storeyc1384

loft1526

floor1585

sollar1585

contignation1592

roof1600

flat1801

piano1835

row1873

level1968

c1384 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 231 (MED) Of Storyes of heygh, the fyrst story of xij fote of heygh, te ij of x fote, te thryd of viij fote.

1480 W. Worcester Itineraries 401 Turris Sancti Stephani Bristoll..habet 4 storyes et ibi in quarta storia sunt campane. In superiori historia tres orbe in qualibet panella.

1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander iii. viii. f. 113^v He caused an engine to be made called Helepolis,..in which were .ix. stories or sellers deuided one from another with planchers of wood.

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 181 Tristega,..a house of three sollers, floores, stories or lofts one ouer another.

1590 C. Lucar Lucarsolace i. xxi. 34 By the art..you may tell..what space is betwene storie and storie in any house or other building.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. viii. 307 It is built very stately..and is of three stories high.

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 39 Annoyances incident to such as dwell in the middle story.

1723 tr. F. C. Weber Present State Russia I. 43 All the Inhabitants of Petersbourg who had Houses but one Story high.

1741 P. Tailfer et al. Narr. Georgia 107 The Orphan-house..has two Stories besides Cellars and Garrets.

1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 360 The basement story is very massy.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iii. 35 The..narrative..was interrupted by the voice of some one ascending the stairs from the kitchen story.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. iii. 296 A Brigand Court-Martial establishes itself in the subterranean stories of the Castle of Avignon.

1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. xlvi. 222 The little house..having..two windows over the shop, in the second story.

1909 S. Hedin Trans-Himalaya I. i. 15 From the great hall in the middle of the house a staircase leads to the first storey.

1965 Life 15 Jan. 87/4 The inner and outer living rooms go up two stories, but the fireplace area between them is only a single story high.

2002 Independent 12 June (Review section) 7/4 The 16-year-olds..dared each other to jump the 10ft gap that separated the buildings, and watched as their friend missed the mark and fell three storeys.

b. figurative and in extended use. Something compared to a storey of a building; each of a series of stages or divisions lying horizontally one above the other.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > [noun] > horizontal layer or tier

chessc1460

loft1535

tier1569

rank1573

storey1594

degree1611

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. To Rdr. sig. a7 The lower story of this frame, where the guttes and entrailes of the body..haue their abiding.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 175 God shall raise thee peece by peece, into a spirituall building; And after one Story of Creation, and another of Vocation, [etc.].

1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts iv. i. sig. H4^v Not the..feare of what can fall on me hereafter, Shall make me studie ought but your aduancement, One story higher. An Earle! if gold can do it.

1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xx. clxii. 395 If Lucifer had never walk'd upon Compleat Felicities transcendent Stories,..His Losse had finite been.

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xxxi. 384 His Effigie is..carried..in Procession mounted on a Coach four Stories high.

1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. iv. 108 He painted in an age when the women erected edifices of three stories on their heads.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 121 To try how all the principles and precepts of Religion, morality, and common prudence, in several stories supported by one another, may be rationally erected.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Will Waterproof's Monologue in Poems (new ed.) II. 185 High over roaring Temple-bar, And, set in Heaven's third story, I look at all things..thro' a kind of glory.

1874 T. B. Aldrich Prudence Palfrey xi. 182 It is so easy to add another story to the high opinion which other people have of you.

1935 J. Masefield Box of Delights i. 27 Two Christmas cakes, four storeys high.

2011 D. Macey tr. J.-C. Kaufmann Curious Hist. Love v. 122 The solid foundations of conjugal agape can support many storeys of love.

2. Architecture. Each of a number of rows of columns, windows, etc., positioned one above the other.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > glazing or dividing bar > part of

core1663

storey1811

beginner1886

1450 in Cal. Proc. Chancery Queen Elizabeth (1830) II. p. liv Uppon þe furste flore in þe second story..shullen be xviij wyndowes haunsed.

1518–19 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 302 Paid for makyng of a fote of glas in the upper store in the Middyll Ile, iiij d.

1564 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 569 Item for scoweryng and newe trimmyng fower stories of olde yron at ij^s. vj^d. the storie, xj^s.

1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. i. 39 Where more of these Orders then one, shalbe set in seuerall Stories or Contignations, there must bee an exquisite care, to place the Columnes precisely, one ouer another.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 36 It stands so much higher, as..the third story of Columns.

1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 444 The disposition of Doric pillars in the first story, of Ionic in the middle, and Corinthian in the third.

1811 J. Milner Eccl. Archit. Eng. Pref. p. xv The mullions of these windows, being continued down to the bottom of their story.

1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. v. 148 The side of that church has three stories of arcade.

a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 88 The capitals which prevail in the upper storeys of the choir..I cannot think so early.

1932 M. D. Hottinger tr. H. Wölfflin Princ. Art Hist. i. 68 Two stories of arcades with pillars below and slim columns above.

1995 J. Newman Glamorgan 83 The former Unitarian chapel at Bridgend..has..two storeys of windows in the outer bays.

3. A layer of vegetation within the canopy of a forest or tract of woodland. Cf. overstorey n. 2, understorey n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > overwood or canopy

over vert1598

storey?1888

overwood1889

canopy1905

overstorey1914

?1888 D. Brandis Notes Forest Managem. Germany iii. 50 To produce as it were a forest consisting of two stories, the upper storey of trees which..require much light, and the lower of shade supporting trees.

1918 Jrnl. Forestry 16 83 Several other trees contribute to the formation of the upper story of the monsoon-forests.

1957 Trop. Woods 107 74 The upper story of the forest is dominated by one species.

2000 J. MacKinnon & K. Phillipps Field Guide Birds China 266 Indochinese Green Magpie... Hunts for insects in the lower storeys of the forest.

Phrases

colloquial. humorous. the (also one's) upper storey (also storeys): the head considered as the seat of the mental faculties. Frequently in phrases indicating a lack of rationality or sanity.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun] > head as seat of intellect

headeOE

headpiece1581

the (also one's) upper storey (also storeys)1699

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun] > as seat of mind

noddle1579

pate1598

the (also one's) upper storey (also storeys)1699

gourda1844

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 304 He..must have Brains..as well as Eyes in his Head. A man that has that Furniture in his upper Story, will discover [etc.].

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 46 What you imagine to be the..light of grace,..I take to be a deceitful vapour, glimmering through a crack in your upper story.

1772 D. Garrick Irish Widow i. i. 5 He dresses, and powders, and smirks, so that you would take him for the mad Frenchman in Bedlam—something wrong in his upper story.

1817 J. Keats Let. 10 May in Wks. (1889) III. 57 By this means, in a week or so, I became not over capable in my upper stories.

1884 Harper's Mag. Dec. 88/1 I wuz born weak in th' upper story.

1921 A. Train Hermit of Turkey Hollow 60 O' course he's kind o' weak in the upper story—but he ain't crazy by a long shock.

1968 N. Meacock Thinking Girl xv. 127 Poor Nobby—I've known him since I was a girl—but definitely missing in the upper storey.

1999 A. Taylor Where Roses Fade (new ed.) xliv. 304 Looks quite normal, if a bit gormless, but there's quite a lot missing in the upper storey.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. Preceded by a numeral, forming adjectives designating a building having a specified number of storeys. Also: preceded by a numeral, designating something a specified number of storeys high. Cf. storeyed adj.multi-storey, one-storey, single-storey, etc.: see the first element.

ΚΠ

1688 C. Wren in 14th Vol. Wren Soc. (1937) 44 Ffor painting 6 Three-story Ladders.

1796 Aurora Gen. Advertiser (Philadelphia) 16 Apr. 3/4 That certain One-Story Frame-shop in front, and Two-Story Frame Messuage.

1835 J. L. Motley Let. 27 July in Corr. (1889) I. iii. 60 A multitude of old, sharp-gabled, red-tiled, ten-storey houses.

1876 Appletons' Jrnl. 12 Feb. 205/2 Not far from the gardens of Sallust..stands a modern five-story building.

1932 A. Huxley Brave New World v. 88 Henry's forty-story apartment house in Westminster.

1967 Interiors July 69/1 The unsuspecting visitor enters the..hotel..through a dark-brown tunnel-like entrance. He then walks smack into..a 24-story atrium full of breathtaking fantasy.

1996 J. Díaz Drown 95 Today a child has survived a seven-story fall, busting nothing but his diaper.

2013 N.Y. Mag. 23 Sept. 14/3 Glare off a London building..melted a poor bloke's Jaguar parked near the 37-story tower.

†C2. attributive. Bee-keeping. Designating a method of keeping bees in boxes stacked one on top of another (cf. storifying n.² at storify v.² Derivatives); relating to or characteristic of this method; as storey box, storey method. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [adjective]

storey1780

apiarian1801

apicultural1884

1780 J. Keys Pract. Bee-master v. 41 Directions for the construction of a house to contain four Stocks in the story method.

1780 J. Keys Pract. Bee-master v. 46 The spaces left between each pair of boxes are for their more commodious removal, especially for the story boxes.

1831 Mechanics. Mag. 21 May 182/2 The hives referred to above..are clearly according to the Russian or Story method.

C3.

storey post n. Building (usually in a timber-framed building) a timber post supporting an upper floor.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > members of

pan1284

balka1300

lacec1330

pautre1360

dorman1374

rib1378

montant1438

dormant?1454

transom1487

ground-pillar?a1500

barge-couple1562

spar foot1579

frankpost1587

tracing1601

sleeper1607

bressumer1611

master-beam1611

muntin1611

discharge1620

dormer1623

mounting post1629

tassel1632

baufrey1640

pier1663

storey post1663

breastplate?1667

mudsill1685

template1700

brow-post1706

brow-stone1761

runner1772

stretching beam1776

pole plate1787

sabliere1800

frame stud1803

bent1815

mounting1819

bond-timber1823

storey rod1823

wall-hold1833

wall-strap1833

truss-block1883

sleeper-beam1937

shell1952

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 67 Oaken Carcasse, ground plates nine inches one way, seven inches the other; Story Posts backwards nine inches one way and six inches the other.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1037 Story Posts, upright timbers disposed in the story of a building for supporting the superincumbent part of the exterior wall through the medium of a beam over them; they are chiefly used in sheds and workshops.

2004 R. Roy Timber Framing for Rest of Us ii. 24 The line of thrust from the upper story is being transferred from the upstairs post, in compression through the girder, and down into the lower story post.

storey rod n. Building a marked strip of wood, the height of a storey, used during the building of a house to check that bricks, stairs, and other features have been positioned correctly.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > members of

pan1284

balka1300

lacec1330

pautre1360

dorman1374

rib1378

montant1438

dormant?1454

transom1487

ground-pillar?a1500

barge-couple1562

spar foot1579

frankpost1587

tracing1601

sleeper1607

bressumer1611

master-beam1611

muntin1611

discharge1620

dormer1623

mounting post1629

tassel1632

baufrey1640

pier1663

storey post1663

breastplate?1667

mudsill1685

template1700

brow-post1706

brow-stone1761

runner1772

stretching beam1776

pole plate1787

sabliere1800

frame stud1803

bent1815

mounting1819

bond-timber1823

storey rod1823

wall-hold1833

wall-strap1833

truss-block1883

sleeper-beam1937

shell1952

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 199 The Story-rod is a rod of wood, equal in length to the height of the stairs.

1908 National Builder Mar. 36/2 A storey-rod should be used to lay off for siding.

1993 J. C. Hodge & R. J. Baldwin Brickwork for Apprentices (ed. 4) iv. 55 On another surface of the rod, sawcuts at 75 mm intervals serve to check regular vertical gauge when bricklaying commences and quoins are raised. Use of this dual-purpose ‘storey rod’, for checking horizontal and vertical gauge, avoids potential risk of error.

storey wig n. historical rare a wig with several rows of curls, of a kind worn during the 18th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > wig > types of > curled

storey wiga1833

buckle-wig1878

a1833 J. T. Smith Bk. for Rainy Day (1845) 238 The earliest engraved portraits of Dr. Johnson exhibit a wig with five rows of curls,..commonly called ‘a story wig’.

1997 A. Bailey Standing in Sun i. 7 The wigs were splendidly various: the old perukes and periwigs, the large bushy Busbys, Club-wigs, Story wigs with their five rows of curls, and Brown Georges favoured by the King.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	storey
释义	storeystoryn. Brit. /ˈstɔːri/, U.S. /ˈstɔri/ Inflections: Plural stories, storeys. Forms: Middle English storye, Middle English– story, 1500s store, 1500s storie, 1500s storrie, 1600s– storey. Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymon: story n. Etymology: Apparently originally a specific use of story n., after post-classical Latin historia upper level in the walls of a building, especially of a church (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources), specific use of classical Latin historia history n.As an architectural term, post-classical Latin historia may originally have denoted a tier of painted windows or of sculptures on the front of a building: see story n. 2, and compare the Latin quot. 1398 and sense 2. Compare the following examples of the post-classical Latin use of historia in the architectural sense:a1300 Gesta Sacristarum in T. Arnold Memorials St. Edmund's Abbey (1892) II. 291 Qui [sc. Abbot Sampson, 1135–1211] tempore officii sui pro majori parte chorum consummavit, et unam istoriam in majori turre ad ostium occidentale [‘who in his period of office completed the choir for the main part and one storey in the main tower at the west door’].?a1330 Hugh Candidus Coenobii Burgensis Historia in J. Sparke Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores (1723) II. 93 In suo etiam tempore [sc. William de Waterville, 1155–75]..tres..hystoriæ magistræ turris erectæ sunt [‘also in his time three storeys of the main keep were built’].1339–40 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 97 Pro fenestris superioris istorie Noui Operis [‘for windows of the upper storey of the New Work’].1398 in J. Raine Hist. Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres (1839) p. clxxxi Supra quodlibet studium erit unum modicum et securum archewote, supra quod, spacio competenti interposito, erit una historia octo fenestrarum..et desuper istam historiam fenestrarum erunt honesta alours et bretesmontz batellata et kirnellata [‘above each study there will be one safe vault of moderate size, above which, with a suitable space set in between, there will be one storey of eight windows, and above that storey of windows there will be fine parapets and wooden towers, provided with battlements and crenellations’]. Now considered a distinct word from story n., and distinguished from it formally in British English by the standard spelling storey, while U.S. English retains story. The form with -e- is prescribed by British guides to English usage and spelling from at least the 1860s. 1. a. Each of the sections of a building comprising all the rooms that are on the same level; the room or set of rooms which comprise one such level; a floor.attic storey, basement storey, chamber storey, first storey, half-storey, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > floor or storey stagea1300 storeyc1384 loft1526 floor1585 sollar1585 contignation1592 roof1600 flat1801 piano1835 row1873 level1968 c1384 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 231 (MED) Of Storyes of heygh, the fyrst story of xij fote of heygh, te ij of x fote, te thryd of viij fote. 1480 W. Worcester Itineraries 401 Turris Sancti Stephani Bristoll..habet 4 storyes et ibi in quarta storia sunt campane. In superiori historia tres orbe in qualibet panella. 1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander iii. viii. f. 113^v He caused an engine to be made called Helepolis,..in which were .ix. stories or sellers deuided one from another with planchers of wood. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 181 Tristega,..a house of three sollers, floores, stories or lofts one ouer another. 1590 C. Lucar Lucarsolace i. xxi. 34 By the art..you may tell..what space is betwene storie and storie in any house or other building. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. viii. 307 It is built very stately..and is of three stories high. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 39 Annoyances incident to such as dwell in the middle story. 1723 tr. F. C. Weber Present State Russia I. 43 All the Inhabitants of Petersbourg who had Houses but one Story high. 1741 P. Tailfer et al. Narr. Georgia 107 The Orphan-house..has two Stories besides Cellars and Garrets. 1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 360 The basement story is very massy. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iii. 35 The..narrative..was interrupted by the voice of some one ascending the stairs from the kitchen story. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. iii. 296 A Brigand Court-Martial establishes itself in the subterranean stories of the Castle of Avignon. 1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. xlvi. 222 The little house..having..two windows over the shop, in the second story. 1909 S. Hedin Trans-Himalaya I. i. 15 From the great hall in the middle of the house a staircase leads to the first storey. 1965 Life 15 Jan. 87/4 The inner and outer living rooms go up two stories, but the fireplace area between them is only a single story high. 2002 Independent 12 June (Review section) 7/4 The 16-year-olds..dared each other to jump the 10ft gap that separated the buildings, and watched as their friend missed the mark and fell three storeys. b. figurative and in extended use. Something compared to a storey of a building; each of a series of stages or divisions lying horizontally one above the other. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > [noun] > horizontal layer or tier chessc1460 loft1535 tier1569 rank1573 storey1594 degree1611 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. To Rdr. sig. a7 The lower story of this frame, where the guttes and entrailes of the body..haue their abiding. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 175 God shall raise thee peece by peece, into a spirituall building; And after one Story of Creation, and another of Vocation, [etc.]. 1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts iv. i. sig. H4^v Not the..feare of what can fall on me hereafter, Shall make me studie ought but your aduancement, One story higher. An Earle! if gold can do it. 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xx. clxii. 395 If Lucifer had never walk'd upon Compleat Felicities transcendent Stories,..His Losse had finite been. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xxxi. 384 His Effigie is..carried..in Procession mounted on a Coach four Stories high. 1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. iv. 108 He painted in an age when the women erected edifices of three stories on their heads. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 121 To try how all the principles and precepts of Religion, morality, and common prudence, in several stories supported by one another, may be rationally erected. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Will Waterproof's Monologue in Poems (new ed.) II. 185 High over roaring Temple-bar, And, set in Heaven's third story, I look at all things..thro' a kind of glory. 1874 T. B. Aldrich Prudence Palfrey xi. 182 It is so easy to add another story to the high opinion which other people have of you. 1935 J. Masefield Box of Delights i. 27 Two Christmas cakes, four storeys high. 2011 D. Macey tr. J.-C. Kaufmann Curious Hist. Love v. 122 The solid foundations of conjugal agape can support many storeys of love. 2. Architecture. Each of a number of rows of columns, windows, etc., positioned one above the other. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > glazing or dividing bar > part of core1663 storey1811 beginner1886 1450 in Cal. Proc. Chancery Queen Elizabeth (1830) II. p. liv Uppon þe furste flore in þe second story..shullen be xviij wyndowes haunsed. 1518–19 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 302 Paid for makyng of a fote of glas in the upper store in the Middyll Ile, iiij d. 1564 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 569 Item for scoweryng and newe trimmyng fower stories of olde yron at ij^s. vj^d. the storie, xj^s. 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. i. 39 Where more of these Orders then one, shalbe set in seuerall Stories or Contignations, there must bee an exquisite care, to place the Columnes precisely, one ouer another. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 36 It stands so much higher, as..the third story of Columns. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 444 The disposition of Doric pillars in the first story, of Ionic in the middle, and Corinthian in the third. 1811 J. Milner Eccl. Archit. Eng. Pref. p. xv The mullions of these windows, being continued down to the bottom of their story. 1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. v. 148 The side of that church has three stories of arcade. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 88 The capitals which prevail in the upper storeys of the choir..I cannot think so early. 1932 M. D. Hottinger tr. H. Wölfflin Princ. Art Hist. i. 68 Two stories of arcades with pillars below and slim columns above. 1995 J. Newman Glamorgan 83 The former Unitarian chapel at Bridgend..has..two storeys of windows in the outer bays. 3. A layer of vegetation within the canopy of a forest or tract of woodland. Cf. overstorey n. 2, understorey n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > overwood or canopy over vert1598 storey?1888 overwood1889 canopy1905 overstorey1914 ?1888 D. Brandis Notes Forest Managem. Germany iii. 50 To produce as it were a forest consisting of two stories, the upper storey of trees which..require much light, and the lower of shade supporting trees. 1918 Jrnl. Forestry 16 83 Several other trees contribute to the formation of the upper story of the monsoon-forests. 1957 Trop. Woods 107 74 The upper story of the forest is dominated by one species. 2000 J. MacKinnon & K. Phillipps Field Guide Birds China 266 Indochinese Green Magpie... Hunts for insects in the lower storeys of the forest. Phrases colloquial. humorous. the (also one's) upper storey (also storeys): the head considered as the seat of the mental faculties. Frequently in phrases indicating a lack of rationality or sanity. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun] > head as seat of intellect headeOE headpiece1581 the (also one's) upper storey (also storeys)1699 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun] > as seat of mind noddle1579 pate1598 the (also one's) upper storey (also storeys)1699 gourda1844 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 304 He..must have Brains..as well as Eyes in his Head. A man that has that Furniture in his upper Story, will discover [etc.]. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 46 What you imagine to be the..light of grace,..I take to be a deceitful vapour, glimmering through a crack in your upper story. 1772 D. Garrick Irish Widow i. i. 5 He dresses, and powders, and smirks, so that you would take him for the mad Frenchman in Bedlam—something wrong in his upper story. 1817 J. Keats Let. 10 May in Wks. (1889) III. 57 By this means, in a week or so, I became not over capable in my upper stories. 1884 Harper's Mag. Dec. 88/1 I wuz born weak in th' upper story. 1921 A. Train Hermit of Turkey Hollow 60 O' course he's kind o' weak in the upper story—but he ain't crazy by a long shock. 1968 N. Meacock Thinking Girl xv. 127 Poor Nobby—I've known him since I was a girl—but definitely missing in the upper storey. 1999 A. Taylor Where Roses Fade (new ed.) xliv. 304 Looks quite normal, if a bit gormless, but there's quite a lot missing in the upper storey. Compounds C1. General attributive. Preceded by a numeral, forming adjectives designating a building having a specified number of storeys. Also: preceded by a numeral, designating something a specified number of storeys high. Cf. storeyed adj.multi-storey, one-storey, single-storey, etc.: see the first element. ΚΠ 1688 C. Wren in 14th Vol. Wren Soc. (1937) 44 Ffor painting 6 Three-story Ladders. 1796 Aurora Gen. Advertiser (Philadelphia) 16 Apr. 3/4 That certain One-Story Frame-shop in front, and Two-Story Frame Messuage. 1835 J. L. Motley Let. 27 July in Corr. (1889) I. iii. 60 A multitude of old, sharp-gabled, red-tiled, ten-storey houses. 1876 Appletons' Jrnl. 12 Feb. 205/2 Not far from the gardens of Sallust..stands a modern five-story building. 1932 A. Huxley Brave New World v. 88 Henry's forty-story apartment house in Westminster. 1967 Interiors July 69/1 The unsuspecting visitor enters the..hotel..through a dark-brown tunnel-like entrance. He then walks smack into..a 24-story atrium full of breathtaking fantasy. 1996 J. Díaz Drown 95 Today a child has survived a seven-story fall, busting nothing but his diaper. 2013 N.Y. Mag. 23 Sept. 14/3 Glare off a London building..melted a poor bloke's Jaguar parked near the 37-story tower. †C2. attributive. Bee-keeping. Designating a method of keeping bees in boxes stacked one on top of another (cf. storifying n.² at storify v.² Derivatives); relating to or characteristic of this method; as storey box, storey method. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [adjective] storey1780 apiarian1801 apicultural1884 1780 J. Keys Pract. Bee-master v. 41 Directions for the construction of a house to contain four Stocks in the story method. 1780 J. Keys Pract. Bee-master v. 46 The spaces left between each pair of boxes are for their more commodious removal, especially for the story boxes. 1831 Mechanics. Mag. 21 May 182/2 The hives referred to above..are clearly according to the Russian or Story method. C3. storey post n. Building (usually in a timber-framed building) a timber post supporting an upper floor. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > members of pan1284 balka1300 lacec1330 pautre1360 dorman1374 rib1378 montant1438 dormant?1454 transom1487 ground-pillar?a1500 barge-couple1562 spar foot1579 frankpost1587 tracing1601 sleeper1607 bressumer1611 master-beam1611 muntin1611 discharge1620 dormer1623 mounting post1629 tassel1632 baufrey1640 pier1663 storey post1663 breastplate?1667 mudsill1685 template1700 brow-post1706 brow-stone1761 runner1772 stretching beam1776 pole plate1787 sabliere1800 frame stud1803 bent1815 mounting1819 bond-timber1823 storey rod1823 wall-hold1833 wall-strap1833 truss-block1883 sleeper-beam1937 shell1952 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 67 Oaken Carcasse, ground plates nine inches one way, seven inches the other; Story Posts backwards nine inches one way and six inches the other. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1037 Story Posts, upright timbers disposed in the story of a building for supporting the superincumbent part of the exterior wall through the medium of a beam over them; they are chiefly used in sheds and workshops. 2004 R. Roy Timber Framing for Rest of Us ii. 24 The line of thrust from the upper story is being transferred from the upstairs post, in compression through the girder, and down into the lower story post. storey rod n. Building a marked strip of wood, the height of a storey, used during the building of a house to check that bricks, stairs, and other features have been positioned correctly. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > members of pan1284 balka1300 lacec1330 pautre1360 dorman1374 rib1378 montant1438 dormant?1454 transom1487 ground-pillar?a1500 barge-couple1562 spar foot1579 frankpost1587 tracing1601 sleeper1607 bressumer1611 master-beam1611 muntin1611 discharge1620 dormer1623 mounting post1629 tassel1632 baufrey1640 pier1663 storey post1663 breastplate?1667 mudsill1685 template1700 brow-post1706 brow-stone1761 runner1772 stretching beam1776 pole plate1787 sabliere1800 frame stud1803 bent1815 mounting1819 bond-timber1823 storey rod1823 wall-hold1833 wall-strap1833 truss-block1883 sleeper-beam1937 shell1952 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 199 The Story-rod is a rod of wood, equal in length to the height of the stairs. 1908 National Builder Mar. 36/2 A storey-rod should be used to lay off for siding. 1993 J. C. Hodge & R. J. Baldwin Brickwork for Apprentices (ed. 4) iv. 55 On another surface of the rod, sawcuts at 75 mm intervals serve to check regular vertical gauge when bricklaying commences and quoins are raised. Use of this dual-purpose ‘storey rod’, for checking horizontal and vertical gauge, avoids potential risk of error. storey wig n. historical rare a wig with several rows of curls, of a kind worn during the 18th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > wig > types of > curled storey wiga1833 buckle-wig1878 a1833 J. T. Smith Bk. for Rainy Day (1845) 238 The earliest engraved portraits of Dr. Johnson exhibit a wig with five rows of curls,..commonly called ‘a story wig’. 1997 A. Bailey Standing in Sun i. 7 The wigs were splendidly various: the old perukes and periwigs, the large bushy Busbys, Club-wigs, Story wigs with their five rows of curls, and Brown Georges favoured by the King. 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