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Hurons :: Hurons (n. pl.) ; sing. Huron. (Ethnol.) A powerful and warlike tribe of North American Indians of the Algonquin stock. They formerly occupied the country between Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario, but were nearly exterminated by the Five Nations about 1650..

Pah :: Pah (n.) A kind of stockaded intrenchment.

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..

Hotchpotch :: Hotchpotch (n.) A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of

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

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.

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

Foreland :: Foreland (n.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.

Put :: Put (n.) A privilege which one party buys of another to put (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date..

Yew :: Yew (a.) Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock..

Stocky :: Stocky (a.) Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.

Watershoot :: Watershoot (n.) A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.

Deal :: Deal (n.) An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains.

Drillstock :: Drillstock (n.) A contrivance for holding and turning a drill.

Stale :: Stale (n.) The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake..

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

Contango :: Contango (n.) The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation.

Stockholder :: Stockfish (n.) Young fresh cod.

Flipe :: Flipe (v. t.) To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on..

Seminary :: Seminary (n.) Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced..

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