Definition of stock

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Stock (n.) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.

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Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To have habitually in stock for sale.
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..
Stirpiculture :: Stirp (n.) Stock; race; family.
Plenish :: Plenish (v. t.) To furnish; to stock, as a house or farm..
Monophyletic :: Monophyletic (a.) Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; -- opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin..
Coltsfoot :: Coltsfoot (n.) A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine..
Hybridizable :: Hybridizable (a.) Capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock..
Gunstock :: Gunstock (n.) The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.
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..
Stock :: Stock (n.) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage..
Tool-stock :: Tool-stock (n.) The part of a tool-rest in which a cutting tool is clamped.
Branch :: Branch (n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family..
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..
Bloodroot :: Bloodroot (n.) A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria..
Whipgraft :: Whipgraft (v. t.) To graft by cutting the scion and stock in a certain manner. See Whip grafting, under Grafting..
Welt :: Welt (n.) In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed..
Bear :: Bear (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market..
Stocky :: Stockwork (n.) A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped. This kind of deposit is especially common with tin ore. Such deposits are worked in floors or stories.
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..
Linstock :: Linstock (n.) A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon..
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