Definition of stock

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Stock (n.) The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached..

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House :: House (n.) A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel..
Budding :: Budding (n.) The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
Grafter :: Grafter (n.) One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting..
Hurons :: Hurons (n. pl.) ; sing. Huron. (Ethnol.) A powerful and warlike tribe of North American Indians of the Algonquin stock. They formerly occupied the country between Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario, but were nearly exterminated by the Five Nations about 1650..
People :: People (v. t.) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
Put :: Put (n.) A privilege which one party buys of another to put (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date..
Fund :: Fund (v. t.) To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt..
Tree :: Tree (n.) Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree..
Replenish :: Replenish (v. t.) To fill again after having been diminished or emptied; to stock anew; hence, to fill completely; to cause to abound..
Money :: Money (n.) In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money..
Spectacle :: Spectacle (n.) Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingstock..
Understock :: Understock (v. t.) To supply insufficiently with stock.
Headstock :: Headstock (n.) The part of a lathe that holds the revolving spindle and its attachments; -- also called poppet head, the opposite corresponding part being called a tailstock..
Headstock :: Headstock (n.) The part of a planing machine that supports the cutter, etc..
Stand :: Stand (v. i.) A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree..
Rudderstock :: Rudderstock (n.) The main part or blade of the rudder, which is connected by hinges, or the like, with the sternpost of a vessel..
Bank :: Bank (n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity..
Family :: Family (v. t.) Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family..
Layer :: Layer (n.) A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation..
Whaap :: Whaap (n.) The European curlew; -- called also awp, whaup, great whaup, and stock whaup..
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