Definition of stock

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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

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Penchute :: Penchute (n.) See Penstock.
Sanguinaria :: Sanguinaria (n.) The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc..
Opetide :: Opetide (n.) The time after harvest when the common fields are open to all kinds of stock.
Stockfish :: Stockfish (n.) Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted..
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..
Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out..
Garter :: Garter (n.) A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.
Cohosh :: Cohosh (n.) A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actaea, plants of the Crowfoot family..
Gens :: Gens (a.) A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe..
Stirpiculture :: Stirp (n.) Stock; race; family.
Overstocked :: Overstocked (imp. & p. p.) of Overstoc.
Beetlestock :: Beetlestock (n.) The handle of a beetle.
Rally :: Rally (v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc..
Coltsfoot :: Coltsfoot (n.) A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine..
Inexhaustible :: Inexhaustible (a.) Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words..
Bear :: Bear (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
Stock :: Stock (n.) The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached..
Hosiery :: Hosiery (n.) Stockings, in general; goods knit or woven like hose..
Ammunition :: Ammunition (n.) Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative..
Headstock :: Headstock (n.) The part of a planing machine that supports the cutter, etc..
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