Definition of stock

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Stock (n.) The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached..

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Brail :: Brail (n.) A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
Bluestockingism :: Bluestockingism (n.) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
Aryan :: Aryan (n.) One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic..
Stock :: Stock (n.) A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings)..
Stock :: Stock (n.) A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
Counterstock :: Counterstock (n.) See Counterfoil.
Stock :: Stock (n.) A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock..
Stack-guard :: Stacket (n.) A stockade.
Linen :: Linen (n.) Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking..
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..
Promoter :: Promoter (n.) Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation, a joint-stock company, or the like..
Standard :: Standard (n.) A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis..
Crannoge :: Crannoge (n.) One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings, under Lake..
Overstocked :: Overstocked (imp. & p. p.) of Overstoc.
Penchute :: Penchute (n.) See Penstock.
Branch :: Branch (a.) Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store..
Overstore :: Overstore (v. t.) To overstock.
Quill :: Quill (n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill..
Laughingstock :: Laughingstock (n.) An object of ridicule; a butt of sport.
Invest :: Invest (v. t.) To lay out (money or capital) in business with the /iew of obtaining an income or profit; as, to invest money in bank stock..
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