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Stives
n. pl.
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Stews; a brothel.
Stoat
n.
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The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels.
Stocah
n.
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A menial attendant.
Stoccade
n. & v.
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See Stockade.
Stoccado
n.
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A stab; a thrust with a rapier.
Stochastic
a.
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Conjectural; able to conjecture.
Stock
n.
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The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
Stock
n.
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The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.
Stock
n.
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A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
Stock
n.
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Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
Stock
n.
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The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.
Stock
n.
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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.
Stock
n.
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The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
Stock
n.
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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.
Stock
n.
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The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.
Stock
n.
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The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.
Stock
n.
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A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.
Stock
n.
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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.
Stock
n.
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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.
Stock
n.
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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.
Stock
n.
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Same as Stock account, below.
Stock
n.
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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.
Stock
n.
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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.
Stock
n.
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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.
Stock
n.
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A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
Stock
n.
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A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings).
Stock
n.
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A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.
Stock
n.
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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.
Stock
n.
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The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
Stock
n.
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Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.