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Counterstock :: Counterstock (n.) See Counterfoil.

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

Stockmen :: Stockjobbing (n.) The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.

Stock :: Stock (n.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.

Longbow :: Longbow (n.) The ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; -- so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. Also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one..

Fund :: Fund (n.) The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds..

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

Replenish :: Replenish (v. t.) To fill again after having been diminished or emptied; to stock anew; hence, to fill completely; to cause to abound..

Brace :: Brace (n.) A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock..

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

Stockade :: Stock (a.) Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon..

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

Stock :: Stock (n.) A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.

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

Stock :: Stock (n.) A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock..

Kraal :: Kraal (n.) A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut..

Little-ease :: Little-ease (n.) An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison..

Rhizanthous :: Rhizanthous (a.) Producing flowers from a rootstock, or apparently from a root..

Income :: Income (n.) That gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property; as, a large income..

Extraction :: Extraction (n.) Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.

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