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Stockwork :: Stock-still (a.) Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still..

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..

Contango :: Contango (n.) The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation.

Derision :: Derision (n.) An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock.

Ginger :: Ginger (n.) The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine..

Senegin :: Senegin (n.) A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid..

Straddling :: Straddle (n.) A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a put and a call, i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities..

Muscadine :: Muscadine (n.) A name given to several very different kinds of grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong, or southern fox grape, which is said to be the parent stock of the Catawba. See Grapevine..

Family :: Family (v. t.) Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family..

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

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..

Widen :: Widen (v. t.) To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking..

Clock :: Clock (n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.

Ammunition :: Ammunition (n.) Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative..

Run :: Run (n.) A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run..

Call :: Call (n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on..

Bedstock :: Bedstock (n.) The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead.

Nut :: Nut (n.) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place..

Stalely :: Stale (v. t.) A laughingstock; a dupe.

Stock :: Stock (n.) Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings..

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