ppl. a. Amply stocked or furnished.
1591. Savile, Tacitus, Hist., II. lvi. 86. The wellstoared groundes [refertos agros].
1616. W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. iii. 54. From one well-stor’d garden to another.
1656. Cowley, Pindar. Odes, Plagues of Egypt, xii. The well-stored Egyptian year Began to cloath her fields and Trees anew.
1667. Milton, P. L., IX. 184. His head … well stor’d with suttle wiles.
a. 1704. Locke, Cond. Underst., § 18. His Head was so well stor’d a Magazine.
1718. Pope, Iliad, XV. 520. The well-stor’d Quiver on his Shoulders hung.
1806–7. J. Beresford, Miseries Hum. Life (1826), VII. lxx. While you are attentively listening to the information or opinion of a well-stored man.
1835. [see STORED ppl. a. 2].
