Definition of stock

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Stock (n.) A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings)..

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Slip :: Slip (n.) A twig separated from the main stock; a cutting; a scion; hence, a descendant; as, a slip from a vine..
Pah :: Pah (n.) A kind of stockaded intrenchment.
Stocky :: Stocky (a.) Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.
Stocking :: Stocking (n.) A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven..
Stock :: Stock (n.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc..
Interest :: Interest (n.) Participation in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks..
Crossbow :: Crossbow (n.) A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock..
Stock :: Stock (n.) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
Rally :: Rally (v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc..
Stock :: Stock (n.) A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
Bloodroot :: Bloodroot (n.) A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria..
Stockman :: Stockmen (pl. ) of Stockma.
Corner :: Corner (v. t.) To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum..
Kraal :: Kraal (n.) A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut..
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.
Stock :: Stock (n.) Same as Stock account, below..
Penstock :: Penstock (n.) A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses..
Genuine :: Genuine (a.) Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials..
Muscadine :: Muscadine (n.) A name given to several very different kinds of grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong, or southern fox grape, which is said to be the parent stock of the Catawba. See Grapevine..
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..
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