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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stock \Stock\ (st[o^]k), n. [AS. stocc a stock, trunk, stick; akin to D. stok, G. stock, OHG. stoc, Icel. stokkr, Sw stock, Dan. stok, and AS stycce a piece; cf Skr. tuj to urge, thrust. Cf {Stokker}, {Stucco}, and {Tuck} a rapier.] 1. The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part the trunk. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. --Job xiv. 8,9. 2. The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted. The scion overruleth the stock quite. --Bacon. 3. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post All our fathers worshiped stocks and stones. --Milton. Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick. --Fuller. 4. Hence a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post one who has little sense Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks. --Shak. 5. The principal supporting part the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached. Specifically: a 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. b The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace. c (Joinery) 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. d (Naut.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of {Anchor}. e The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself f A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock. g 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}. [Eng.] 6. The original progenitor; also the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family. And stand betwixt them made when severally, All told their stock. --Chapman. Thy mother was no goddess, nor thy stock From Dardanus. --Denham. 7. 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}. 8. (Bookkeeping) Same as {Stock account}, below. 9. Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as to lay in a stock of provisions. Add to that stock which justly we bestow. --Dryden. 10. (Agric.) Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also {live stock}. 11. (Card Playing) 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. I must buy the stock; send me good cardings. --Beau. & Fl 12. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado. [Obs.] 13. [Cf. {Stocking}.] A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings). [Obs.] With a linen stock on one leg. --Shak. 14. A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as a silk stock. 15. pl A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment. He shall rest in my stocks. --Piers Plowman. 16. pl (Shipbuilding) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building. 17. pl Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings. [Eng.] 18. (Bot.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus {Matthiola}; as common stock ({Matthiola incana}) (see {Gilly-flower}); ten-weeks stock ({M. annua}). 19. (Geol.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone. 20. A race or variety in a species. 21. (Biol.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see {Person}), as trees, chains of salp[ae], etc 22. The beater of a fulling mill. --Knight. 23. (Cookery) 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 {Bit stock}. See {Bitstock}. {Dead stock} (Agric.), the implements of husbandry, and produce stored up for use -- in distinction from live stock, or the domestic animals on the farm. See def. 10, above. {Head stock}. See {Headstock}. {Paper stock}, rags and other material of which paper is made {Stock account} (Bookkeeping), an account on a merchant's ledger, one side of which shows the original capital, or stock, and the additions thereto by accumulation or contribution, the other side showing the amounts withdrawn. {Stock car}, a railway car for carrying cattle. {Stock company} (Com.), an incorporated company the capital of which is represented by marketable shares having a certain equal par value. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: stocks n : a wooden instrument on a post with holes for the neck and hands; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn [syn: {pillory}]
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