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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Run :: Run (n.) A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run..
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..
Laughingstock :: Laughingstock (n.) An object of ridicule; a butt of sport.
Dead :: Dead (a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade..
Narrow :: Narrow (v. t.) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one..
Ramed :: Ramed (a.) Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks..
Mahon Stock :: Mahon stock () An annual cruciferous plant with reddish purple or white flowers (Malcolmia maritima). It is called in England Virginia stock, but the plant comes from the Mediterranean..
Barometz :: Barometz (n.) The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb..
Fund :: Fund (n.) A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc..
Nation :: Nation (n.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock..
Assessment :: Assessment (n.) An apportionment of a subscription for stock into successive installments; also, one of these installments (in England termed a call)..
Launch :: Launch (n.) The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built..
Sock :: Sock (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.
Yew :: Yew (a.) Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock..
Shoddy :: Shoddy (v. t.) A fibrous material obtained by deviling, or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo..
Bit :: Bit (v.) A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock..
Plenishing :: Plenishing (n.) Household furniture; stock.
Gunstock :: Gunstock (n.) The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.
Flunky :: Flunky (n.) One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber.
Watershoot :: Watershoot (n.) A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
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