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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

Promoter :: Promoter (n.) Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation, a joint-stock company, or the like..

Generation :: Generation (n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

Quill :: Quill (n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill..

Overstore :: Overstore (v. t.) To overstock.

Choker :: Choker (n.) A stiff wide cravat; a stock.

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

Beet :: Beet (n.) The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar..

Rhizomatous :: Rhizomatous (a.) Having the nature or habit of a rhizome or rootstock.

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.

Rootstock :: Rootstock (n.) A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s/ems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome..

Stockfish :: Stocker (n.) One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc..

Arrowroot :: Arrowroot (n.) A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of Maranta arundinacea, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also, a similar starch obtained from other plants, as various species of Maranta and Curcuma..

Bluestockingism :: Bluestockingism (n.) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.

Stock :: Stock (v. t.) To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass..

Ramed :: Ramed (a.) Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil..

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

Unstock :: Unstock (v. t.) To deprive of a stock; to remove the stock from; to loose from that which fixes, or holds fast..

Stockinet :: Stockholder (n.) One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company..

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