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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..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached..

Gapingstock :: Gapingstock (n.) One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder.

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

Senegin :: Senegin (n.) A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid..

Hosier :: Hosier (n.) One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose..

Gest :: Gest (n.) A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story.

Contributory :: Contributory (a.) Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive..

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

Arbitrage :: Arbitrage (n.) A traffic in bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets..

Bluestocking :: Bluestocking (n.) A literary lady; a female pedant.

Zareba :: Zareba (n.) An improvised stockade; especially, one made of thorn bushes, etc..

Hand :: Hand (n.) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim..

Stock :: Stock (n.) A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment..

Handle :: Handle (v. t.) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock..

Guard :: Guard (v. t.) A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger..

Agriculture :: Agriculture (n.) The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming..

Stockman :: Stockmen (pl. ) of Stockma.

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

Unravel :: Unravel (v. t.) To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking..

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