Story (?), n.; pl. Stories (#). [OF. estoré, estorée, built, erected, p. p. of estorer to build, restore, to store. See Store, v. t.] A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within. [Written also storey.]
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&hand_; A story comprehends the distance from one floor to another; as, a story of nine or ten feet elevation. The spaces between floors are numbered in order, from below upward; as, the lower, second, or third story; a house of one story, of two stories, of five stories.
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Story post (Arch.), a vertical post used to support a floor or superincumbent wall.
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Story, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Storied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Storying.] To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.
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How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing. Shak.
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It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high. Bp. Wilkins.
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