Definition of stock

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Stock (n.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc..

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Stock :: Stock (n.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua)..
Grafter :: Grafter (n.) One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting..
Narrow :: Narrow (v. t.) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one..
Touch :: Touch (v.) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters..
Cold-blooded :: Cold-blooded (a.) Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country..
Garter :: Garter (n.) A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.
Lunette :: Lunette (n.) An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
Stock :: Stock (n.) A race or variety in a species.
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..
Counterstock :: Counterstock (n.) See Counterfoil.
Increase :: Increase (v. i.) That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.
Widen :: Widen (v. t.) To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking..
Hybridizable :: Hybridizable (a.) Capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock..
Gest :: Gest (n.) A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story.
Stocking :: Stocked (imp. & p. p.) of Stoc.
Brace :: Brace (n.) A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock..
Offspring :: Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock..
Beetlestock :: Beetlestock (n.) The handle of a beetle.
Caudex :: Caudex (n.) The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant..
Basbleu :: Basbleu (n.) A bluestocking; a literary woman.
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