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Teem :: Teem (v. i.) To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound..

Hydrorhiza :: Hydrorhiza (n.) The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects. See Illust. under Hydroidea.

Linstock :: Linstock (n.) A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon..

Yew :: Yew (n.) The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain..

Fireman :: Fireman (n.) A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker..

Overstock :: Overstock (n.) Stock in excess.

Hotchpotch :: Hotchpotch (n.) A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of

Straddling :: Straddle (n.) A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a put and a call, i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities..

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

Foot :: Foot (v. t.) To renew the foot of, as of stocking..

Narrowing :: Narrowing (n.) The part of a stocking which is narrowed.

Bear :: Bear (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market..

Hand :: Hand (n.) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim..

Run :: Run (n.) A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock..

Contributory :: Contributory (a.) Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive..

Stock-still :: Stockman (n.) A herdsman; a ranchman; one owning, or having charge of, herds of live stock..

Blue :: Blue (superl.) Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.

Treasure :: Treasure (n.) Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve..

Omnium :: Omnium (n.) The aggregate value of the different stocks in which a loan to government is now usually funded.

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