Definition of stock

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Stock (n.) The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk..

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Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points..
Understock :: Understock (v. t.) To supply insufficiently with 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..
Ammunition :: Ammunition (n.) Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative..
Mantle :: Mantle (n.) A penstock for a water wheel.
Smilax :: Smilax (n.) A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla..
Idorgan :: Idorgan (n.) A morphological unit, consisting of two or more plastids, which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon..
Taro :: Taro (n.) A name for several aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var. esculenta, Colocasia macrorhiza, etc.), and their rootstocks. They have large ovate-sagittate leaves and large fleshy rootstocks, which are cooked and used for food in tropical countries..
Tailstock :: Tailstock (n.) The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle..
Stock :: Stock (v. t.) To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like..
Stockaded :: Stockade (v. t.) An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes..
Stock :: Stock (n.) That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank..
Hoard :: Hoard (n.) A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money..
Operate :: Operate (v. i.) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
Struggled :: Strude (n.) A stock of breeding mares.
Plenish :: Plenish (v. t.) To furnish; to stock, as a house or farm..
Spectacle :: Spectacle (n.) Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingstock..
Cross :: Cross (v. t.) To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.
Foreland :: Foreland (n.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.
Fund :: Fund (n.) The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds..
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