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The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed,
strong, firm part; the trunk. |
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The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted. |
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A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm
support; a post. |
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Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or
post; one who has little sense. |
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The principal supporting part; the part in which others are
inserted, or to which they are attached. |
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The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or
like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood,
which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage. |
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The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring;
a bitstock; a brace. |
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The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body
of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock. |
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The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an
anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor. |
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The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of
the anvil itself. |
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A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting
screws; a diestock. |
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The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which
was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as
the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil. |
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The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family;
the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family. |
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Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in
business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other
company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount;
money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in
the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or
in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the
United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and
the former shares. |
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Same as Stock account, below. |
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Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a
merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of
provisions. |
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Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a
farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live
stock. |
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That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the
players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which
might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank. |
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A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado. |
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A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks
(breeches); nether stocks (stockings). |
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A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a
silk stock. |
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A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet
and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment. |
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The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building. |
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Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the
front of buildings. |
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Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common
stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M.
annua). |
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An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a
rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone. |
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A race or variety in a species. |
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In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see
Person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc. |
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The beater of a fulling mill. |
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A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of
meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in
making soup, gravy, etc. |
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To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as
merchandise, and the like. |
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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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To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more
previous to sale, as cows. |
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To put in the stocks. |
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Used or employed for constant service or application, as if
constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent;
standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon. |
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