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- English Word Stock Definition 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.
- English Word Stock Definition The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.
- English Word Stock Definition The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.
- English Word Stock Definition A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.
- English Word Stock Definition 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.
- English Word Stock Definition The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.
- English Word Stock Definition 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.
- English Word Stock Definition Same as Stock account, below.
- English Word Stock Definition Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions.
- English Word Stock Definition Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live stock.
- English Word Stock Definition 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.
- English Word Stock Definition A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- English Word Stock Definition A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings).
- English Word Stock Definition A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.
- English Word Stock Definition A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.
- English Word Stock Definition The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
- English Word Stock Definition Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- English Word Stock Definition Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua).
- English Word Stock Definition An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.
- English Word Stock Definition A race or variety in a species.