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

Bear :: Bear (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market..

Straddling :: Straddle (n.) A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a put and a call, i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities..

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

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

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

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..

Stock :: Stock (n.) Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense..

Speculate :: Speculate (v. i.) To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock..

Stockade :: Stockading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stockad.

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

Orris :: Orris (n.) A plant of the genus Iris (I. Florentina); a kind of flower-de-luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets.

Hare''s-foot Fern :: Hare's-foot fern () A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock; -- whence the name..

Overstock :: Overstock (n.) Stock in excess.

Gillyflower :: Gillyflower (n.) A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white..

Stocked :: Stock (n.) A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in making soup, gravy, etc..

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

Ridicule :: Ridicule (n.) An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.

Stockade :: Stockade (v. t.) A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification..

Strenger :: Strene (n.) Race; offspring; stock; breed; strain.

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