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Knot :: Knot (n.) A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.

Bedstock :: Bedstock (n.) The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead.

Invest :: Invest (v. i.) To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in..

Stirps :: Stirps (n.) Stock; race; family.

Tambour :: Tambour (n.) A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade..

Stockade :: Stock (a.) Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon..

Whaap :: Whaap (n.) The European curlew; -- called also awp, whaup, great whaup, and stock whaup..

Stockwork :: Stockwork (n.) A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories..

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

Yankee :: Yankee (n.) A nickname for a native or citizen of New England, especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United States..

Watershoot :: Watershoot (n.) A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.

Deal :: Deal (n.) An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains.

Unstock :: Unstock (v. t.) To remove from the stocks, as a ship..

Slip :: Slip (n.) A twig separated from the main stock; a cutting; a scion; hence, a descendant; as, a slip from a vine..

Bear :: Bear (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.

Nation :: Nation (n.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock..

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..

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

Opetide :: Opetide (n.) The time after harvest when the common fields are open to all kinds of stock.

Taro :: Taro (n.) A name for several aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var. esculenta, Colocasia macrorhiza, etc.), and their rootstocks. They have large ovate-sagittate leaves and large fleshy rootstocks, which are cooked and used for food in tropical countries..

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