Mag`a*zine", n. 1.
A country or district especially rich in natural
products.
2. A city viewed as a marketing
center.
3. A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove,
battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
4. A store, or shop, where goods are kept for
sale.
Mag`a*zine" (?), n. [F. magasin,
It. magazzino, or Sp. magacen, almagacen; all
fr. Ar. makhzan, almakhzan, a storehouse, granary, or
cellar.]
1. A receptacle in which anything is stored,
especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions,
etc. "Armories and magazines." Milton.
2. The building or room in which the supply
of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.
3. A chamber in a gun for holding a number of
cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.
4. A pamphlet published periodically
containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.
Magazine dress, clothing made chiefly of
woolen, without anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder
magazine. -- Magazine gun, a portable
firearm, as a rifle, with a chamber carrying cartridges which are
brought automatically into position for firing. --
Magazine stove, a stove having a chamber for
holding fuel which is supplied to the fire by some self-feeding
process, as in the common base-burner.
Mag`a*zine" (?), v. t. [imp. &
p. p. Magazined (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Magazining.] To store in, or as in, a
magazine; to store up for use.
Mag`a*zine", n. 1.
A country or district especially rich in natural
products.
2. A city viewed as a marketing
center.
3. A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove,
battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
4. A store, or shop, where goods are kept for
sale.
