MAGAZINE  , primarily a warehouse for goods or merchandise (Arab. makhzan, a storehouse, from khazana, to

store up) . In Morocco makhzan (or maghzen) has come to be used as the name of the government . The Spaniards adopted the Arabic in the form magacen, and the English form comes through the older French magazin, modern magasin . The meaning of a storehouse or large shop, common in French, is rare in English except in the military use of the term for a building for the storage of explosives and ammunition . It is applied to the chamber of a repeating rifle or machine-gun containing the supply of cartridges . The name as applied to a periodical publication containing articles on various subjects was first used in the Gentleman's Magazine (1731), described as " a monthly collection, to treasure up as in a magazine " articles on the subjects with which it was proposed to deal .