The principal supporting part; the part in
which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.
The original progenitor; also, the race or
line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct
descendants; lineage; family.
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.
Same as Stock
account, below.
Supply provided; store; accumulation;
especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay
in a stock of provisions.
Domestic animals or beasts
collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle
or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live stock.
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.
A thrust with a rapier] a stoccado.
A covering for the
leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether
stocks (stockings).
A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for
the neck; as, a silk stock.
A frame of timber, with holes
in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly
confined by way of punishment.
The frame
or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
Red and gray bricks, used for
the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
Any cruciferous plant of the
genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola
incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M.
annua).
An irregular metalliferous
mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of
lead ore deposited in limestone.
A race or variety in a species.
In tectology, an aggregate
or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of
salpæ, etc.
The beater of a fulling mill.
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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