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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Stockfish :: Stockfish (n.) Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted..
Rentier :: Rentier (n.) One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like..
Beetlestock :: Beetlestock (n.) The handle of a beetle.
Actionist :: Actionist (n.) A shareholder in joint-stock company.
Corner :: Corner (v. t.) To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum..
Clock :: Clock (n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
Blue :: Blue (superl.) Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.
Fireman :: Fireman (n.) A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker..
Graft :: Graft (n.) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon..
Little-ease :: Little-ease (n.) An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison..
Port :: Port (v. t.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms..
Store :: Store (v. t.) To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time..
Corner :: Corner (n.) The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock..
Stirpes :: Stirpiculture (n.) The breeding of special stocks or races.
Crossbar :: Crossbar (n.) A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down..
Overtrade :: Overtrade (v. i.) To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.
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..
Half-blooded :: Half-blooded (a.) Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep..
Osmund :: Osmund (n.) A fern of the genus Osmunda, or flowering fern. The most remarkable species is the osmund royal, or royal fern (Osmunda regalis), which grows in wet or boggy places, and has large bipinnate fronds, often with a panicle of capsules at the top. The rootstock contains much starch, and has been used in stiffening linen..
Quill :: Quill (n.) One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather..
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