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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Cold-blooded :: Cold-blooded (a.) Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country..
Song :: Song (n.) An object of derision; a laughingstock.
Leaf :: Leaf (n.) A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage..
Credit Mobilier :: Credit mobilier () A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the credit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed..
Stock :: Stock (v. t.) To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like..
Cassava :: Cassava (n.) A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca..
Inarch :: Inarch (v. t.) To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete; -- also called to graft by approach..
House :: House (n.) A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel..
Rhizome :: Rhizome (n.) A rootstock. See Rootstock.
Stocking :: Stocked (imp. & p. p.) of Stoc.
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..
Shekel :: Shekel (n.) An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock.
Advance :: Advance (v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand..
Slip :: Slip (n.) A twig separated from the main stock; a cutting; a scion; hence, a descendant; as, a slip from a vine..
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..
Stock :: Stock (n.) Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live stock..
Widen :: Widen (v. t.) To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking..
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..
Knit :: Knit (v. t.) To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings..
Stodgy :: Stocky (a.) Headstrong.
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