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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Unstock :: Unstock (v. t.) To deprive of a stock; to remove the stock from; to loose from that which fixes, or holds fast..
Stock :: Stock (n.) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
Tree :: Tree (n.) Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree..
Clock :: Clock (v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking..
Crossbar :: Crossbar (n.) A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down..
Sufficiency :: Sufficiency (n.) Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.
Security :: Security (n.) An evidence of debt or of property, as a bond, a certificate of stock, etc.; as, government securities..
Penchute :: Penchute (n.) See Penstock.
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..
Foot :: Foot (n.) That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking..
Holethnos :: Holethnos (n.) A parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes..
Contango :: Contango (n.) The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation.
Blue :: Blue (n.) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
Stockdove :: Stockbroker (n.) A broker who deals in stocks.
Corner :: Corner (v. t.) To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum..
Tang :: Tang (n.) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock..
Stockinet :: Stockholder (n.) One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company..
Opetide :: Opetide (n.) The time after harvest when the common fields are open to all kinds of stock.
Watershoot :: Watershoot (n.) A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
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..
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