Definition of stock

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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

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Ravel :: Ravel (v. t.) To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking..
Penchute :: Penchute (n.) See Penstock.
Bear :: Bear (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
Stock :: Stock (n.) The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family..
Bud :: Bud (v. i.) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn..
Hosier :: Hosier (n.) One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose..
Open :: Open (v. i.) To begin; to commence; as, the stock opened at par; the battery opened upon the enemy..
Rhizomatous :: Rhizomatous (a.) Having the nature or habit of a rhizome or rootstock.
Headstock :: Headstock (n.) The part of a planing machine that supports the cutter, etc..
Job :: Job (v. i.) To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.
Bit :: Bit (v.) A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock..
Tous-les-mois :: Tous-les-mois (n.) A kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably C. edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year..
Stag :: Stag (n.) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange..
Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir..
Stock :: Stock (n.) A race or variety in a species.
Stem :: Stem (n.) The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
Puttyroot :: Puttyroot (n.) An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve..
Over :: Over (adv.) From beginning to end; throughout the course, extent, or expanse of anything; as, to look over accounts, or a stock of goods; a dress covered over with jewels..
Pah :: Pah (n.) A kind of stockaded intrenchment.
Narrowing :: Narrowing (n.) The part of a stocking which is narrowed.
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