Noun

(libraries)

An institution which holds books and/or other forms of stored information for use by the public or qualified people. It is usual, but not a defining feature of a library, for it to be housed in rooms of a building, to lend items of its collection to members either with or without payment, and to provide various other services for its community of users.

A collection of books or other forms of stored information.

An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library

(computer science) A collection of software subprograms that provides functionality, to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.

(card games) The deck or draw pile

A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease

Noun

(ambries)

*:

*:Whanne Bors had told hym of the aduentures of the Sancgreal suche as had befalle hym / and his thre felawes that was launcelot / Percyual / Galahad / & hym self There Launcelot told the aduentures of the Sancgreal / that he had sene / Alle this was made in grete bookes / and put vp in almeryes at Salysbury

*2006 , Ernest A Savage, Old English Libraries , p.97:

*:This collection, then, was the college reference library; corresponding with the common aumbry of the monastery, but also indicative of the principle of all library organisation.

(label) A storehouse. (Especially a niche or recess in a wall used for storage.)

*{{quote-book, year=1767, author=Patrick Sanderson

, title= The antiquities of the abbey or cathedral church of Durham. Also a particular description of the county palatine of Durham, compiled from the best authorities and original manuscripts. , publisher=printed by J. White and T. Saint, for P. Sanderson, location=Durham, page=75 , passage=In the closets or almeries on each side of the Frater-house door in the Cloisters, Towels were kept white and clean to dry their Hands upon.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1767, author=Patrick Sanderson

, title= The antiquities of the abbey or cathedral church of Durham. Also a particular description of the county palatine of Durham, compiled from the best authorities and original manuscripts. , publisher=printed by J. White and T. Saint, for P. Sanderson, location=Durham, page=72 , passage=Within the Frater-house Door, on the Left Hand at entering, is a strong Almery in the Wall, wherein a great Mazer, called the Grace Cup, stood, which every Day served the Monks after grace, to drink out of round the Table; which cup was finely edged about with Silver, and double gilt.}}

*2004 , (Mary Ellen Snodgrass), Encyclopedia of Kitchen History , p.128:

*:Used by a wholesaler or retailer as a wine cabinet, the ambry cupboard suited the needs of a neighborhood inn or small-scale private kitchen.

(label) A cupboard or storage area in a church to hold books, communion vessels, vestments, etc.; an armarium.

*1787 , , The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham , vol.II, p.64:

*:At the end of the bench adjoining to the Frater-house door, was a fine almery fixed to the wall, and another on the other side of the door.

*1983 , Dennis G. Michno, A Priest's Handbook , Morehouse 1998, p.75:

*:Nothing else should be kept in the tabernacle or aumbry where the Sacrament is reserved, but a small container of water and a cloth may be kept on the shelf for cleansing one's fingers.

*2003 , Wm. B. Eerdmans, translating Erwin Fahlbusch et al., The Encylopedia of Christianity , vol.III, p.321:

*:Portions of the consecrated bread from the Eucharist were stored or reserved in an ambry or tabernacle to be taken to the sick.