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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..

Basbleu :: Basbleu (n.) A bluestocking; a literary woman.

Unravel :: Unravel (v. t.) To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking..

Ravel :: Ravel (v. t.) To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking..

Blue :: Blue (n.) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.

Bluestockingism :: Bluestockingism (n.) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.

Pair :: Pair (n.) Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes..

Narrow :: Narrow (v. t.) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one..

Flipe :: Flipe (v. t.) To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on..

Hogger :: Hogger (n.) A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work..

Overstocking :: Overstocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overstoc.

Unstockinged :: Unstockinged (a.) Destitute of stockings.

Blue :: Blue (superl.) Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.

Sock :: Sock (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.

Narrowing :: Narrowing (n.) The part of a stocking which is narrowed.

Knit :: Knit (v. t.) To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings..

Luddite :: Luddite (n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames..

Stock :: Stock (n.) A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings)..

Hypothec :: Hypothec (n.) A landlord's right, independently of stipulation, over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent..

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

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