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

Foreland :: Foreland (n.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.

Displenish :: Displenish (v. t.) To deprive or strip, as a house of furniture, or a barn of stock..

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

Stock-still :: Stockman (n.) A herdsman; a ranchman; one owning, or having charge of, herds of live stock..

Foot :: Foot (v. t.) To renew the foot of, as of stocking..

Little-ease :: Little-ease (n.) An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison..

Float :: Float (v. t.) To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation..

Native :: Native (n.) Any of the live stock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached..

Bucket Shop :: Bucket shop () An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc..

Guard :: Guard (v. t.) A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger..

Ball :: Ball (n.) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller..

Sufficiency :: Sufficiency (n.) Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.

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

Bud :: Bud (v. t.) To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear..

Pentrough :: Pentrough (n.) A penstock.

Fund :: Fund (n.) The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds..

Quill :: Quill (n.) One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather..

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..

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