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Ballooning :: Ballooning (n.) The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales..

Narrow :: Narrow (v. i.) To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one..

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

Surcharge :: Surcharge (v. t.) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone..

Stodgy :: Stocky (a.) Headstrong.

Choker :: Choker (n.) A stiff wide cravat; a stock.

Rhizocarpous :: Rhizocarpous (a.) Having perennial rootstocks or bulbs, but annual flowering stems; -- said of all perennial herbs..

Gazingstock :: Gazingstock (n.) A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt.

Bitstock :: Bitstock (n.) A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.

Eugenics :: Eugenics (n.) The science of improving stock, whether human or animal..

Stock :: Stock (n.) Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former

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..

Pointingstock :: Pointingstock (n.) An object of ridicule or scorn; a laughingstock.

Unstockinged :: Unstockinged (a.) Destitute of stockings.

Watershoot :: Watershoot (n.) A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.

Arbitrage :: Arbitrage (n.) A traffic in bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets..

Hosier :: Hosier (n.) One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose..

Muscadine :: Muscadine (n.) A name given to several very different kinds of grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong, or southern fox grape, which is said to be the parent stock of the Catawba. See Grapevine..

Blue :: Blue (n.) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.

Pumpkin :: Pumpkin (n.) A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion..

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