Definition of stock

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Stock (n.) The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family..

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Clock :: Clock (v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking..
Unravel :: Unravel (v. t.) To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking..
Gapingstock :: Gapingstock (n.) One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder.
Stag :: Stag (n.) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange..
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..
Premium :: Premium (n.) A sum in advance of, or in addition to, the nominal or par value of anything; as, gold was at a premium; he sold his stock at a premium..
Stockbroker :: Stock-blind (a.) Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
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..
Knit :: Knit (v. t.) To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings..
Grade :: Grade (n.) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade..
Trail :: Trail (n.) That part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. See Illust. of Gun carriage, under Gun..
Graft :: Graft (n.) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon..
Shoshones :: Shoshones (n. pl.) A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho into Mexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied especially to the Snakes, the most northern of the tribes..
Insition :: Insition (n.) The insertion of a scion in a stock; ingraftment.
Backwardation :: Backwardation (n.) The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango..
Stockman :: Stockmen (pl. ) of Stockma.
Plenish :: Plenish (v. t.) To furnish; to stock, as a house or farm..
Stock :: Stock (n.) The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.
Counterstock :: Counterstock (n.) See Counterfoil.
Inflater :: Inflater (n.) One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange..
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