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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..

Gillyflower :: Gillyflower (n.) A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white..

Scion :: Scion (n.) Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock..

Water :: Water (v. t.) An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or diluted..

Quotation :: Quotation (n.) The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named..

Stock :: Stock (n.) A race or variety in a species.

Carry :: Carry (v. t.) To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance..

Headstock :: Headstock (n.) The part of a lathe that holds the revolving spindle and its attachments; -- also called poppet head, the opposite corresponding part being called a tailstock..

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

Insition :: Insition (n.) The insertion of a scion in a stock; ingraftment.

Flesh :: Flesh (n.) Kindred; stock; race.

Whipstick :: Whipstick (n.) Whip handle; whipstock.

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..

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..

Blue :: Blue (n.) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.

Footglove :: Footglove (n.) A kind of stocking.

Holethnos :: Holethnos (n.) A parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes..

Contribution :: Contribution (n.) That which is contributed; -- either the portion which an individual furnishes to the common stock, or the whole which is formed by the gifts of individuals..

Stirps :: Stirps (n.) Stock; race; family.

Stocky :: Stockwork (n.) A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped. This kind of deposit is especially common with tin ore. Such deposits are worked in floors or stories.

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