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Ball :: Ball (n.) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller..

Bluestocking :: Bluestocking (n.) The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).

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..

Cassava :: Cassava (n.) A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc..

Budding :: Budding (n.) The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.

Headstock :: Headstock (n.) A part (usually separate from the bed or frame) for supporting some of the principal working parts of a machin.

Stock :: Stock (n.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.

Narrow :: Narrow (v. t.) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one..

Bedstock :: Bedstock (n.) The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead.

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

Hydrastine :: Hydrastine (n.) An alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal (Hydrastis Canadensis), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. It is used as a tonic and febrifuge..

Birthroot :: Birthroot (n.) An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties..

Metayer :: Metayer (a.) One who cultivates land for a share (usually one half) of its yield, receiving stock, tools, and seed from the landlord..

Insertion :: Insertion (n.) The act of inserting; as, the insertion of scions in stocks; the insertion of words or passages in writings..

Cassava :: Cassava (n.) A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca..

Overstocked :: Overstocked (imp. & p. p.) of Overstoc.

Stockish :: Stockinger (n.) A stocking weaver.

Overtrade :: Overtrade (v. i.) To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.

Shortclothes :: Shortclothes (n.) Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings..

Puttyroot :: Puttyroot (n.) An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve..

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