Who bid the fork, Columbus like, explore burg; S. and W. by Lunenburg and Bremen. It Heav'ns not his own, and worlds unknown be- is 12 miles long and 8 broad. HAMBURGH is the fore? Pope. capital. (2.) STORK, in ornithology. See ARDEA, II, 3. (3, 4) STORK, Abraham, a celebrated Dutch painter, famed for fea-pieces and fea-ports. In thefe his figures were fmall, but fo numerous, varied, and accurate, as to afford a great fund of entertainment. He died in 17c8. His brother was a landscape painter, but not equal to Abraham. STORKOW, a town of Brandenburg, 24 miles ESE. of Beriin, and 26 WSW. of Franckfort on the Oder. (1.) * STORKSBILL. n. f. [geranium, Latin.] An herb. Ainsworth. * (2.) STOPKSBILL is a species of GERANIUM. Here may thy ftorm-beat veilel safely ride. We hear this fearful tempeft fing, Oh! beat thofe storms, and roll the feas in vain. 2. Affau't on a fortified place. How by storm the walls were won. Dryden. 3. Commotion; fedition; tumult; clamour; buftle. I will ftir up in England fome black storm. Her fifter (1.) STORMONT, a district of Perthshire, on the E. bank of the Tay; whence the family of Murray Earl Mansfield take the title of viscount. (2. 3.) STORMONT, a lake in the above district, in the parish of Bendothy; in which is an island, with the ruins of an antique building upon it, which, ancient tradition says, was the place where the royal stores were anciently deposited; whence the name of the island, lake, and district, Store mount. * STORMY. adj. [from storm.] 1. Tempes tuous. Bellowing clouds burft with a stormy found. Addifon. The tender apples, from their parents rent By stormy shocks, muft not neglected lie. Phil. 2. Violent; paffionate. STORNARA, a town of Naples, in the province of Capitanata; 9 miles NE. of Ascoli. (1.) STORNAWAY, or a parish of Scotland (1.) STORNOWAY, Sin Rofs-hire, in the inland of LEWIS, of very great extent; but the inhabited parts refemble in form an ifofceles triangle, two fides of which are 10 miles long, and the 3d about 7. The extent of fea coaft is about 35 miles; and the coaft is partly fandy and partly rocky. The chief bays are Broad Bay, South Bay, LOCH STORNOWAY, and Loch Grimfhader, which ali afford good anchorage for fishing veffels. The head-lands are TORSTASELLER, TIAMPAN, and Seller-heads. The population, in 1798, was 2639; the increafe 827, fince 1755; the number of horfes was 556; of fheep 2576; and of black cattle 2440. The chief ornament of the parish is Seaforth Lodge, the elegant feat of Lord Seaforth, which is feated on an elevated fi Began to fcold and raife up fuch a storm 4. Affliction; calamity; diftrefs. (2.) STORNOWAY, the capital of the island of Lewis, as well as of the above parish, is feated A brave man struggling in the ftorms of fate. at the head of the Bay of Loch Stornoway, upon Pope. a point of land jutting into it. The harbour is 5. Violence; vehemence; tumultuous force. fafe, fpacious, and eafy of accefs, and has excei-We are delivered from those imminent cala- lent anchorage. The town is well built, and has mities, against the storm and tempeft whereof we a town-houte, an affembly room, an elegant ail inftantiy craved favour from above. Hooker. church, 2 fchools, a custom-houfe, and a poft. (2.) STORM. See HURRICANE, SAMIEEL, SI- office; with a regular packet, which fails weekly. MOOM, TORNADO, WHIRLWIND, and WIND. The population, in 1798, was 760. A majority (1.) To STORM. v. a. [from the noun.] To at- of the inhabitants and about 40 small veffels are cm. tach by open force.-ployed in the fitheries of herrings, haddocks, cod, They fight in fields, and Storm the fhaken porpoifes, &c. Many of the people are alfo emDryden. ployed as mafons, carpenters, fmiths, &c. new There the brazen tow'r was ftorm'd of oid, buildings being daily raifed. The town, formerWhen Jove descended in almighty gold. Pope. ly a mere village, owes its prefent prosperity to (2.)* To STORM. V. n. 1. To raife tempefls. the exertions of Lord Seaforth, who has given eSo now he storms with many a sturdy ftourc. very encouragement to fettlers. Befides fith, oil, feal skins, and other skins, are exported. Lon. 3. 3. W. of Edinburgh. Lat. 58. 18. N. town. Spenfer. 2. To rage; to fume; to be loudly angry.Hoarfe, and ali in rage, Milton. Swift. As mock'd they storm. (3.) STORNOWAY, LOCH, a lake of the island of Lewis, on the coaft of the above town; abounding with various fish, but particularly with porpoifes, which are often killed by hundreds at a time. STOROZEVOI, a cape on the N. coaft of Ruffia, in the ftraits of Vaigatikoi. Lon. 86. o. E. Ferro. Lat. 69. 25. N. STOR STORRINGTON, a town of England, in Suffex, near Paikḥam. STORT, a river of England, in Hertfordshire, which is made navigable from Bishop's Stortford to the river LEA. STORTA, a town of Italy, in Patrimonio, near the ruins of the ancient Vei; 6 miles NW. of Rome. STORTFORD. See BISHOP'S STORTFORD. * STORY. n. f. [stær, Saxon; storie, Dutch; stola, Italian; 501.] 1. Hiftory; account of things paft.-The fable of the dividing of the world between the three fons of Saturn, arofe from the true story of the dividing of the earth between the three brethren, the fons of Noah. Raleigh. Now hear me relate 2. * STORYTELLER. n. f. [story and tell. One who relates tales in converfation; an hiftorian, in contempt. Oid storytellers too muft pine and die. Dryden. --Company will be no longer pestered with dull, dry, tedious storytellers. Swift. STOSSEN, a town of Germany, in Thuringia; 6 miles SE. of Naumburg. STOT, n. f. [Stod, Sax.] A young horfe or bul lock. Bailey. STOTTER SEE, a lake of Suabia, in Augsburg; 10 miles NNW. of Fuetfen. STOTTLEDORF, a town of imperial Austria; 6 miles S. of Sonneberg. (1.) * STOVE. n. f. [stoo, Inlandick, a fireplace; stovoa, Saxon; estuve, French; stove, Dutch.] I. A hot-houfe; a place artificially made warm.-Fishermen who make holes in the ice, to dip up fish with their nets, light on fwallows congealed in ciods, and carrying them home to their stoves, the warmth recovereth them to life and flight. Cares.— Stoves, which could Autumn of cold Winter My story, which perhaps thou hast not heard. Milton. -The four great monarchies make the fubject of ancient story. Temple.-Matters of fact, concerning times, places, perfons, actions depend upon story. Wilkins.-Nor are there the leaft traces of thein to be found, but only in story. South. Small tale; petty narrative; account of a fingle incident.-A monument erected by the republick The grottos are usually fo hot as to ferve for natural stoves or fweating-vaults. Woodard.The most proper place for unction is a stove. Wifeman. 2. A place in which fire is made, and by which heat is communicated.-Kindie fome charcoals, and when they have done fmoaking, put them into a hoie funk a little into the floor, about the middle of it. This is the fafcft stove. Evelyn. of Bern tells us the story of an Englishman not to These flaws and ftarts would well become Beheld of old, what stories had we heard Sonnets or elegies to Chloris, Might raife a houfe about two stories; A lyrick ode would flate; a catch Would tile; an epigram would thatch. Swift. *To STORY. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To tell in history; to relate. How worthy he is, I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing. Shak.— What the fage poets, taught by the heav'nly mufe, Story'd of old in high immortal verse. Milt. -It is storied of the brazen Coioffus, in the island of Rhodes, that it was 70 cubits high; the thumbs of it being fo big, that no man could grafp one of them with both his arms. Wilkins. Recite them, nor in erring pity fear, To wound with storied griefs the filial car. Pope. 2. To range one under another. Because all the parts of an undisturbed fluid are of equal gravity, or gradually placed or storied according to the difference of it; any concretion that can be fuppofed to be naturalty and mechanically made in fuch a fluid, muft have a like ftructure of its feveral parts; that is, either be all over of a fimilar gravity, or have the more ponderous parts nearer to its bafis. Bentley. (2.) STOVE for heating apartments, green-houfes, Lo-houses, fruit-walls, &c. When treating of the mechanical properties of AIR, we explained in fufficient detail the manner in which the expansion produced in a mass of air by heat produces that motion up our chimneys which is called the draught of the chimney; and, in the articles FIRE-PLACE, SMOKE, and SMOKING, we confidered the circumstances which tend to check, to promote, or to direct this current, fo as to free us from the fmoke and vitiated air which neceffarily accompanies the confumption of the fuel. Under PNEUMATICS, Sec. XI. we also attended to the manner in which our fires imediately operate in warming our apartments. A prefent, when about to defcribe a method of warming in-trinsically different, we must pay fome more attention to the distinguishing circumstance. (3.) STOVES, COMMUNICATION OF HEAT BY. Without pretending to explain the physical connection of heat and light, we may obierve, that heat, as well as light, is communicated to distant bodies in an inftant by radiation. A perfon patfing haftily by the door of a giafs-houfe feels the glow of heat in the very moment he ices the dazzling light of the furnace mouth, and it is interrupted by merely freening his face with his hand. In this way is an apartment partly warmed by an open fire; and we avoid the oppreffive heat by fitting where the fire is not feen, or by interpofing a fereen. We are apt to connect this fo strongly in the imagination with the light emitted by the fire, that we attribute the heat to the immediate L112 action aftion of the li, ht. But this opinion je shown to "The air in immediate contact with the burning be gratuitous by a curious experiment made be- fusi is heated, and imparts fome of its heat to the fore the Royal Society by D. Hooke, and after- air lying beyond it, and this is partly shared with wards, with more care and accurate examination, the air which is ftill farther off; and this diffuby Mr Scheele. They found, that by bringing a tion, by communication is contactu, goes on till plate of the most transparent glass brifkly between the remote air contiguous to the wails, the floor, the fire and one's face, the heat is immediately the ceiling, the furniture, the company, all get å intercepted without any fenfible diminution of fare of it in proportion to their attractions, and the light. Scheele, by a very pretty investigation, their capacities. And as the air is thus continu cifcovered that the glafs made the feparation, and ahy fupplied, and continually gives out heat, the did it both in refraction and reflection; for he walls, &c. become gradually warmer, and the found, that when the light of the fame fire was room becomes comfortable and pleafant. But no collected into a focus by means of a polithed me- great proportion of the heat actually acquired by tal concave speculum, a thermometer placed the room is communicated in this way. This ditthere was inftantly affected. But if we employ a fufion by contact is but flow, efpecially in air glafe fpeculum foiled in the ufual manner with which is very dry; fo flow indeed, that the air in quicklilver, of the fame diameter and focal dif- the immediate neighbourhood of the fuel is hurtance, and of equally brilliant reflection, there is ried up the chimney before it has time to impart hardly any fenfible heat produced in the focus, any of the heat received in contact. We know and the thermometer muit remain there for a ve- that the time employed in diffuting itfeir in this ry long while before it is fenfibly affected. When way through ftagnant air to any moderate difwe repeated this curious experiment, we found, fance is very confiderable. We imagine therefore that after the glass has remained a long while in that the heat communicated to our rooms by an this pofition, whether tranfmitting or reflecting open fire is chiefly by radiation, but in a way the light, it lofes in a great mealime its power of fomething different from what we mentioned be intercepting the heat. By varying this obferva- fore. We imagine, that as the piece of glafs in tion in many of its circumstances, we think our- Dr Hooke's experiment abforbs the heat, 15 the felves entitled to conclude, that the glafs abforbs whole mafs of air which fills the room intercepts the heat which it intercepts, and is very quickly the radiated heat in every part of the room where heated by the abforption. While it rifes in is the fire is feen, and is as it were faturated with it own temperature, it intercepts the heat power throughout, and ready to impart it to every body fully; but when it is, as it wer, faturated, at- immerfed in it. We cannot otherwife account tracting no more than what it immediately im- for the equability of the heat in the different parts parts to the air in corporeal contact with it, the of the room. Mere radiation on the fond bodies heat paffes ficcly through along with the light. would warm them in the inverfe duplicate ratio If the glass be held fo near the fire that the fur- of their distances from the fire; and difiution by rounding air is very much heated, no fenfible in- contact, if compatible with the rapid current up terruption of heat is perceived after the glafs is the chimney, would heat the room ftili more unthus faturated. We found the cheek more quick- equabiy. But because all parts of the air of the ly fenfible than the thermometer of this inflanta- room abforb radiated heat, what is faturated at a neous radiation of the heat which accompanies higher temperature, being nearer to the fire, rifes the light, or is separated from it in this experi- to the ceiling, fpreads outwards along the ceiling, ment. It is a very instructive experiment in the and has its place tupplied by the air, which is phyfiology of heat. The accompaniment of thus pushed towards the fire from the places light is not demonstrably neceflary. We are cer- which are not directly illuminated. Far different tain that beat may be imparted without any fen. is the method of warraing the room by a ftove. ble light, in a manner which we can hardly fup- Here the radiation, if any, is very feeble or can pofe any thing but radiation. If a piece of very ty; and if a paffage were allowed up the chin hot iron be placed a little without the principal ney for the warmed air, it would be quickly car focus of a metallic concave speculum, and a very ried off. This is well known to the Englith who fenfible air-thermometer be placed in its conju refide in the cold climates of St Petersburgh, gate focus, it will inftantly fhow an elevation of Archangel, &c. They love the exhilarating finttemperature, although the iron is quite impercep- ter of an open fire, and often have ore in their tibe to an eye which has even been a long while parlour; but this, fo far from warming the room in the dark. No fuch rife of temperature is ob- during the extreme cold weather, obliges them to ferved if the thermometer be placed a little to one heat their stoves more frequently, and even abde of the focus of the fpeculum; therefore the ftracts the heat from a whole fuite of apartments. phenomenon is precifely fimilar to the radiation But ali pallages this way are thut up when we of light. We are obliged therefore to acknow- warin a room by @oves. The air immediately edge that the heat is radiated in this experiment contiguous to the ftove is heated by contact, and in the fame way that light is in the common op- this heat is gradually, though flowly, diffuted tical experiments. Although this is the most it through the whole room. The diffution would fual way that we in this country employ fuel for however be very flow indeed, were it not for the warming our apartments, it is by no means the great expanfibility of air by heat. But the air farpu y way in which the heat diffufed from this fu- rounding the stove quickly expands and rifes to may be imparted to diftant bodies. It is not the ceiling, while the neighbouring air flides in to even the most effectual method; it is diffused alfo fupply the place, nay is even pushed in by the air Immediate communication to bodies in contact. which goes outwards aloft. Thus the whole air |