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Ramed :: Ramed (a.) Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks..

Increase :: Increase (v. i.) That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.

Invest :: Invest (v. i.) To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in..

Sock :: Sock (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.

Little-ease :: Little-ease (n.) An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison..

Blue :: Blue (superl.) Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.

Scrub :: Scrub (n.) One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc..

Stirpes :: Stirpiculture (n.) The breeding of special stocks or races.

Contribution :: Contribution (n.) That which is contributed; -- either the portion which an individual furnishes to the common stock, or the whole which is formed by the gifts of individuals..

Stale :: Stale (n.) The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage..

Pointingstock :: Pointingstock (n.) An object of ridicule or scorn; a laughingstock.

Vacher :: Vacher (n.) A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman.

Budget :: Budget (n.) A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions..

Vocabulary :: Vocabulary (n.) A sum or stock of words employed.

Stock :: Stock (n.) Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former

Clock :: Clock (v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking..

Spread :: Spread (n.) A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon..

Handle :: Handle (v. t.) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock..

Widen :: Widen (v. t.) To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking..

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