Definition of stock

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Stock (n.) That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank..

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Stocked :: Stock (n.) A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in making soup, gravy, etc..
Stockish :: Stockinger (n.) A stocking weaver.
Gapingstock :: Gapingstock (n.) One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder.
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..
Vacher :: Vacher (n.) A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman.
Stock :: Stock (v. t.) To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows..
Operate :: Operate (v. i.) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
Stag :: Stag (v. i.) To act as a stag, or irregular dealer in stocks..
Job :: Job (v. i.) To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.
Contango :: Contango (n.) The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day..
Brail :: Brail (n.) A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
Seam :: Seam (v. t.) To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting..
Zareba :: Zareba (n.) An improvised stockade; especially, one made of thorn bushes, etc..
Bull Brier :: Bull brier () A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier..
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..
Stirpiculture :: Stirp (n.) Stock; race; family.
Jest :: Jest (v. i.) The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock.
Rentier :: Rentier (n.) One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like..
Turmeric :: Turmeric (n.) The root or rootstock of the Curcuma longa. It is externally grayish, but internally of a deep, lively yellow or saffron color, and has a slight aromatic smell, and a bitterish, slightly acrid taste. It is used for a dye, a medicine, a condiment, and a chemical test..
Whaap :: Whaap (n.) The European curlew; -- called also awp, whaup, great whaup, and stock whaup..
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