Definition of stock

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Stock (n.) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself..

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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..
Bitstock :: Bitstock (n.) A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.
Johnson Grass :: "Johnson grass () A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet..
Gazingstock :: Gazingstock (n.) A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt.
Stirpes :: Stirpiculture (n.) The breeding of special stocks or races.
Approaching :: Approaching (n.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach..
Stock :: Stock (n.) A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock..
Capital :: Capital (n.) Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a..
Insertion :: Insertion (n.) The act of inserting; as, the insertion of scions in stocks; the insertion of words or passages in writings..
Peopled :: Peopled (a.) Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited..
Stockman :: Stockmen (pl. ) of Stockma.
Action :: Action (n.) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks..
Tailstock :: Tailstock (n.) The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle..
Carry :: Carry (v. t.) To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance..
Opetide :: Opetide (n.) The time after harvest when the common fields are open to all kinds of stock.
Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To have habitually in stock for sale.
Penstock :: Penstock (n.) The barrel of a wooden pump.
Mantle :: Mantle (n.) A penstock for a water wheel.
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..
Stag :: Stag (n.) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock..
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