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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.) A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

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

Blue :: Blue (superl.) Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.

Actionist :: Actionist (n.) A shareholder in joint-stock company.

Tuber :: Tuber (n.) A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous..

Overstocked :: Overstocked (imp. & p. p.) of Overstoc.

Stoccado :: Stoccade (n. & v.) See Stockade.

Stock :: Stock (n.) The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.

Bull Brier :: Bull brier () A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier..

Basbleu :: Basbleu (n.) A bluestocking; a literary woman.

Stock :: Stock (n.) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.

Operator :: Operator (n.) A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator.

Stag :: Stag (n.) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange..

Mestizo :: Mestizo (n.) The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.

Penstock :: Penstock (n.) A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses..

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

Pantaloon :: Pantaloon (n.) A bifurcated garment for a man, covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of breeches and stockings in one..

Plane :: Plane (a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc..

Rente :: Rente (n.) In France, interest payable by government on indebtedness; the bonds, shares, stocks, etc., which represent government indebtedness..

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