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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Hogger :: Hogger (n.) A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work..
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..
Shekel :: Shekel (n.) An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock.
Officinal :: Officinal (a.) Kept in stock by apothecaries; -- said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.
Unstockinged :: Unstockinged (a.) Destitute of stockings.
Tang :: Tang (n.) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock..
Senegin :: Senegin (n.) A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid..
Counterfoil :: Counterfoil (n.) That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; -- called also counterstock..
Stockman :: Stockmen (pl. ) of Stockma.
Treasure :: Treasure (n.) Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve..
Stock :: Stock (n.) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
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..
Amusette :: Amusette (n.) A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel..
Turmeric :: Turmeric (n.) The root or rootstock of the Curcuma longa. It is externally grayish, but internally of a deep, lively yellow or saffron color, and has a slight aromatic smell, and a bitterish, slightly acrid taste. It is used for a dye, a medicine, a condiment, and a chemical test..
Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To have habitually in stock for sale.
Plenish :: Plenish (v. t.) To furnish; to stock, as a house or farm..
Gerant :: Gerant (n.) The manager or acting partner of a company, joint-stock association, etc..
Float :: Float (v. t.) To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation..
Inflater :: Inflater (n.) One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange..
Ginger :: Ginger (n.) The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine..
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