Definition of stock

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Stock (n.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua)..

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Income :: Income (n.) That gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property; as, a large income..
Insert :: Insert (v. t.) To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper..
Tang :: Tang (n.) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock..
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..
Stock :: Stock (n.) A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings)..
Seminary :: Seminary (n.) Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced..
Leg :: Leg (n.) The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers..
Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To raise, as any kind of stock..
Stock :: Stock (v. t.) To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass..
Layer :: Layer (n.) A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation..
Rally :: Rally (v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc..
Stag :: Stag (v. i.) To act as a stag, or irregular dealer in stocks..
Narrow :: Narrow (v. i.) To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one..
Standard :: Standard (n.) A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis..
Stock :: Stock (n.) A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.
Stock :: Stock (n.) Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings..
Yew :: Yew (n.) The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain..
Coltsfoot :: Coltsfoot (n.) A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine..
Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out..
Inexhaustible :: Inexhaustible (a.) Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words..
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