Definition of stock

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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..

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Corner :: Corner (n.) The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock..
Hydrastine :: Hydrastine (n.) An alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal (Hydrastis Canadensis), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. It is used as a tonic and febrifuge..
Inventory :: Inventory (n.) An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business..
Cleftgraft :: Cleftgraft (v. t.) To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.
Bluestocking :: Bluestocking (n.) The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).
Ballooning :: Ballooning (n.) The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales..
Seminary :: Seminary (n.) Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced..
Unload :: Unload (v. t.) To sell in large quantities, as stock; to get rid of..
Overgrassed :: Overgrassed (a.) Overstocked, or overgrown, or covered, with grass..
Huron-iroquous :: Huron-Iroquous (n.) A linguistic group of warlike North American Indians, belonging to the same stock as the Algonquins, and including several tribes, among which were the Five Nations. They formerly occupied the region about Lakes Erie and Ontario, and the larger part of New York..
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.
Branch :: Branch (n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family..
Whipstalk :: Whipstalk (n.) A whipstock.
Knot :: Knot (n.) A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.
Trunk :: Trunk (n.) The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk..
Crows :: Crows (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians of the Dakota stock, living in Montana; -- also called Upsarokas..
Shortclothes :: Shortclothes (n.) Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings..
Contributory :: Contributory (a.) Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive..
Rally :: Rally (v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc..
Pumpkin :: Pumpkin (n.) A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion..
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