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Overstock :: Overstock (v. t.) To fill too full; to supply in excess; as, to overstock a market with goods, or a farm with cattle..

Fort :: Fort (n.) A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification..

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..

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..

Orris :: Orris (n.) A plant of the genus Iris (I. Florentina); a kind of flower-de-luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets.

Margin :: Margin (n.) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc..

Hose :: Hose (n.) Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings.

Stag :: Stag (n.) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange..

Birthroot :: Birthroot (n.) An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties..

Realize :: Realize (v. i.) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds, etc..

Utes :: Utes (n. pl.) An extensive tribe of North American Indians of the Shoshone stock, inhabiting Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent regions. They are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of North American Indians..

Peopled :: Peopled (a.) Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited..

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

Pool :: Pool (n.) A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool..

Half-blooded :: Half-blooded (a.) Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep..

Imbursement :: Imbursement (n.) Money laid up in stock.

Stock :: Stock (n.) The beater of a fulling mill.

Methysticin :: Methysticin (n.) A white, silky, crystalline substance extracted from the thick rootstock of a species of pepper (Piper methysticum) of the South Sea Islands; -- called also kanakin..

Grafter :: Grafter (n.) One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting..

Stockbroker :: Stock-blind (a.) Blind as a stock; wholly blind.

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