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

Rally :: Rally (v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc..

Bank :: Bank (n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital..

Imburse :: Imburse (v. t.) To supply or stock with money.

Touch :: Touch (v.) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters..

Hare''s-foot Fern :: Hare's-foot fern () A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock; -- whence the name..

Stockbroker :: Stock-blind (a.) Blind as a stock; wholly blind.

Stock :: Stock (n.) Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense..

Speculate :: Speculate (v. i.) To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock..

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. i.) To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one..

Provision :: Provision (n.) Especially, a stock of food; any kind of eatables collected or stored; -- often in the plural..

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

Counterfoil :: Counterfoil (n.) That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; -- called also counterstock..

Stockaded :: Stockade (v. t.) An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes..

Cross :: Cross (v. t.) To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.

Amusette :: Amusette (n.) A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel..

Stockmen :: Stockjobbing (n.) The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.

Fireman :: Fireman (n.) A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker..

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..

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