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Laughingstock :: Laughingstock (n.) An object of ridicule; a butt of sport.

Whipgraft :: Whipgraft (v. t.) To graft by cutting the scion and stock in a certain manner. See Whip grafting, under Grafting..

Stock :: Stock (v. t.) To put in the stocks.

Bank :: Bank (n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity..

Tous-les-mois :: Tous-les-mois (n.) A kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably C. edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year..

Messiad :: Messiad (n.) A German epic poem on the Messiah, by Klopstock..

Nut :: Nut (n.) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place..

Herd :: Herd (n.) A number of beasts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle..

Bull :: Bull (v. t.) To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4..

Dakotas :: Dakotas (n. pl) An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux..

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

Unstock :: Unstock (v. t.) To remove from the stocks, as a ship..

Corner :: Corner (n.) The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock..

Straddling :: Straddle (n.) A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a put and a call, i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities..

Johnson Grass :: "Johnson grass () A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet..

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

Rhizome :: Rhizome (n.) A rootstock. See Rootstock.

Stock :: Stock (n.) A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.

Stock :: Stock (n.) A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

Operate :: Operate (v. i.) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.

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