stock 
Brandy was produced, pipes lighted, and conversation 
returned to the grand staple Australian subject sloe*. 
A. C. Grant, Bush Life in Queensland, I. 141. 
(6) The implements of husbandry stored for use. 
Also called dead stock. 23. The raw material 
from which anything is made; stuff; material: 
as, paper-stocfc (rags, fiber, wood-pulp, etc.); 
In its natural state, fat of animals is always associated 
with cellular tissue and other foreign matters, which must 
be separated before it can be used as candle stock. 
Workshop Receipts, 1st ser., p. 360. 
24. The liquor or broth prepared by boiling 
meat, with or without vegetables, etc., so as 
to extract the nutritious properties, and used 
as a foundation for different kinds of soup. 
Also called soup-stock. 25. A good kind of 
red and gray brick, used for the exterior of 
walls and the front of buildings. 26. A name 
of several cruciferous garden-flowers, (a) One 
of several species of Matthiofa, or sometimes the species 
in general: originally stock-ifillyjlower. (6) By extension, 
the somewhat similar Malcolmia marilima, the Mahon 
stock, a low diffuse annual, in England called Virginia, 
or virgin stock, though from the shores of the Mediterra- 
nean. The name has been applied also to the genus 
HeliophUa. 
27t. A covering for the leg; a stocking. Com- 
pare nether-stocks. 
A linen stock on one leg, and a kersey 'boot-hose on the 
other. Shale., T. of the S., iii. 2. 67. 
28. In her., the stump of a tree used as a bear- 
ing : represen ted as cut square on top and eradi- 
cated that is, torn up by the roots with at 
least the main roots indicated. 29. (a) The 
pillar or post on which the holy-water vessel 
was fixed. E. Peacock. Hence (6) A holy- 
water vessel, or aspersorium. 
Item, oone hollywater stocke of glasse with a bayle. 
Inventory 34, Henry VIII. 
30. The proceeds of the sale of the catch of a 
fishing-trip; the net value of a cargo of fish. 
[NewEng.] 31. pi. Aframe inwhicha horse 
or other animal can be secured or slung for 
shoeing or for a veterinary operation. 32. In 
mining, sometimes used as the equivalent of 
the German stock (plural stocke), especially in 
translating from that language. A "stock "is a 
mass of ore of irregular form, but usually thick in pro- 
portion to its other dimensions, and not having the char- 
acters of a true vein, but belonging more properly to 
the class of segregated veins or masses. Some "stocke" 
resemble very nearly the "carbonas" of the Cornish 
miner ; others are akin to the " flats " of the north of 
England. 
33. In early forms of feudalism, commenda- 
tion. See to accept stock, below. 34. In zool., 
a compound, colonial, or aggregate organism; 
an aggregate of persons forming one organic 
whole, which may grow by budding or cast 
off parts to start a new set of persons: as, 
a polyp-stocfc. A polypidom, a polyzoary, a chain of 
snips or doliolids, etc., are examples. Haeckel extends 
stock in this sense to the broader biological conception 
which includes those plants that propagate by buds or 
shoots. See tectology. Dead stock. See def. 22. Drop 
of stock. See drop. Fancy stocks. See fancy. Holy- 
water stock, a vessel for holy water ; a holy-water stoup. 
See water. Live Stock. See def. 22. Lock, stock, 
and barrel. See Zoc*i. Long of stock. See long*. 
Net stock. See net*. On or upon the stocks. See 
def. 13. Preference or preferred stock. See prefer- 
ence. Rolling stock. See rolling-stock. StOCk-and- 
bill tackle. Same as stock-tackle. Stock and block*, 
everything ; both capital and interest. 
Before 1 came home I lost all, stock and Mock. 
Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, p. 236. 
Stock and die, a screw-cutting die in its holder. Stock 
certificate, (a) In the law of corporations, a certificate 
issued by a corporation or joint-stock company to a share- 
holder, as evidence of his title to a specified number of 
shares of the capital stock. (6) In Eng. finance, a cer- 
tificate issued by or on behalf of the government, pursuant 
to the National Debt Act, 33 and 34 Viet., c. 71, to a holder 
of consols or of some other public indebtedness or an- 
nuities, as evidence of his title to such stock, with coupons 
annexed, entitling the bearer of the coupon to the cor- 
responding dividend. A stock certificate is evidence of 
title to the stock, as distinguished from the stock it- 
self, which is considered as an intangible right. Stock 
company, (a) A commercial or other company or cor- 
poration whose capital is divided into shares, which are 
held or owned by individuals, generally with limited 
liability, as distinguished from a partnership : as, a stock 
company for the manufacture of window-glass. (6) A com- 
pany of actors and actresses employed more or less per- 
manently under the same management, and usually con- 
nected with a central or home theater. Stock divi- 
dend. See dividend. Stock indicator. See indica- 
tor. Stock in trade, the goods kept for sale by a shop- 
keeper ; hence, a person's mental equipmentor resources 
considered as qualifying him for a special service or busi- 
ness. Stock of descent, in the law of inheritances, the 
person with whose ownership any given succession of in- 
heritance is considered as commencing. At common law, 
in order to determine who was entitled to succeed as heir, 
the inquiry was for the heir of the person last actually 
seized. This rule has been superseded by modern legisla- 
tion. To accept stock, in early feudal customs, the act 
of a lord in receiving another person as his vassal. To 
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give stock, the act of a person in becoming the vassal of 
a lord. To liave on the stocks, to have in hand ; be at 
work upon. To take stock, (a) Same as to accept stock, 
(b) In com., to make an inventory of stock or goods on 
hand ; hence, with of, to make an estimate of ; set a value 
upon ; investigate for the purpose of forming an opinion ; 
loosely, to notice. 
In taking stock of his familiarly worn . . . nautical 
clothes, piece by piece, she took stock of a formidable knife 
in a sheath at his waist, . . . and of a whistle hanging 
round his neck, and of a short jagged knotted club. 
Dickens, Our Mutual tTiend, ii. 12. 
To take Stock in. (<' ) To take a share or shares in ; take or 
have an interest in. Hence (6) To repose confidence in ; 
believe in : as, to take little stockin one's stories. [Colloq.j 
Captain Polly gives the right hand of fellowship to two 
boys in whom nobody else is willing to take stock, and her 
faith in them saves them. 
Harper's Mag., Oct., 1889, Literary Notes. 
To water stocks. See water, t>. t. 
II. a. Kept in stock ; ready for service at all 
times; habitually produced or used; standing; 
as, a stock play ; a stock anecdote ; a stock ser- 
mon. 
The old (oat-oaths, I am confident, do not amount to 
above forty-five, or fifty at most. 
Sir^ft, Polite Conversation, Int. 
The master of the house, who was burning to tell one of 
his seven stock stories. Dickens, Sketches, Tales, x. 2. 
stock 1 (stok), v. [< ME. stocken, stokken = MD. 
MHG. stocken, G. stocken, put in the stocks; 
from the noun: see stock 1 , n.] I. trans. 1. To 
provide with a stock, handle, or the like : as, to 
stock a gun or an anchor. 
They can mend and new stock their pieces, as well, 
almost, as an Englishman. 
Got. Bradford, in App. to New England's -Memorial, p. 456. 
2. To fasten, bolt, or bar, as a door or window. 
[Old and prov. Eng.] 
Oftyn tymes the dure is stokked, and we parsons & vicars 
cannot get brede, wyne, nor water. 
Fabric Rolls of York Minster (1519), p. 268. (E. Peacock.) 
3. To put in the stocks as a punishment ; hence, 
to confine ; imprison . 
Rather deye I wolde and determine, 
As thynketh me now, stokked in prisone, 
In wrechednesse, in fllthe and in vermyne. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 380. 
They suffered great hardships for this their love and 
good-will, being often stocked, stoned, beaten, whipped, 
and imprisoned. Peiin, Rise and Progress of Quakers, v. 
4. To lay up in store ; accumulate for future 
use: as, to stock goods. Scott, Quentin Dur- 
ward, xviii. 8. To provide or supply with 
stock, (a) To supply with a stock of goods ; store with 
commodities; store with anything: as, to stock a ware- 
house. 
Our Author, to divert his Friends to Day, 
Stocks with Variety of Fools his Play. 
Steele, Tender Husband, Prol. 
The bazaars were crowded with people, and stocked with 
all manner of eastern delicacies. 
R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 419. 
(b) To supply with cattle, sheep, etc., or, in some uses, to 
supply with domestic animals, implements, etc.: as, to 
stock a farm. 
He has bought the great farm, . . . 
And stock'd it like an emperor. 
Fletcher (and another 1 !), Prophetess, v. 2. 
(c) To furnish with a permanent growth, especially with 
grass : as, to stock a pasture. 
6. To suffer to retain milk for many hours, as 
cows before selling. 7t. To dig up; root out; 
extirpate by grubbing : sometimes with up. 
This tyme is to be stocked every tree 
Away with herbes brode, eke root and bough. 
Pattadius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 182. 
The wild boar not only spoils her branches, but stocks up 
her roots. Decay of Christian Piety. 
8. Same as stack 1 , 2. 
II. intrans. 1. To branch out into shoots 
immediately above ground ; tiller : applied to 
grasses, grain, or flowers. 
About two months ago broad blanks were to be seen on 
many oatflelds, and, though they were stocked a little, the 
crop is yet far too thin. The Scotsman. 
2. To send out sprouts, as from a stem which 
has been cut over: said of a tree or plant. 
3. To make a certain profit on stock. See 
stock 1 , n., 30. [New Eng.] 
stock 2 t (stok), n. [< OF. estoc = It. stocco, a 
rapier: see stock 1 , and of. estoc, tuck 2 .'] 1. Same 
as estoc; also, a thrusting-sword used in the 
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, supersed- 
ing the cut-and-thrust sword of earlier times. 
2. Same as stoccade, 1. 
stock 2 t (stok), v. t. [< stock 2 , n."} To hit with 
a rapier or stock. 
Oh, the brave age is gone ! in my young days 
A chevalier would stock a needle's point 
Three times together. 
Fletcher (and another), Love's Cure, iii. 4. 
stock-account (stok'a-kount*), n. In com., an 
account in a ledger showing on one side the 
stocker 
amount of the original stock with accumula- 
tions, and on the other the amount of what has 
been disposed of. 
Stockade (sto-kad'), [Formerly also stocka- 
do, stoccade; < stock 2 + -ade 1 , in imitation of 
stoccade, < F. estocadc, a thrust in fencing (and 
of palisade 1): see stoccade.] 1. In fort., a fence 
or barrier constructed by plantingupright in the 
ground timber, piles, or trunks of trees, so as 
to inclose an area which is to be defended, in 
Oriental warfare such stockades are often of formidable 
strength and great extent, as the stockades of Rangoon. 
2. An inclosure or pen made with posts and 
stakes. 3. In hydraul. engin., a row of piles 
serving as a breakwater, or to protect an em- 
bankment. 
stockade (sto-kad'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. stock- 
aded, ppr. stockading. [Formerly also stockado, 
stoccade; (stockade, n.] To encompass or for- 
tify with posts or piles fixed in the ground. 
On the back of the Hill, the Land being naturally low, 
there is a very large Moat cut from the Sea to the River, 
which makes the whole an Island ; and that back part is 
stockadoed round with great Trees, set up an end. 
Dampier, Voyages, II. i. 160. 
stockadot (sto-ka'do), . 1. Same as stoccade. 
Robrus, who, addict to nimble fence. 
Still greets me with stockado's violence. 
Marston, Satires, i. 132. 
2. Same as stockade. 
Stockadoes, Palizadoes, stop their waters. 
Heywood, Four Prentises (Works, ed. 1874, II. 242). 
stockadot, v. t. See stockade. 
stock-beer (stok'ber), . Lager-beer. See 
beer 1 . [Rare.] 
stock-blind (stok'btind), a. Blind as a stock 
or block ; stone-blind. 
True lovers are blind, ttoeklilind. 
Wycherley, Country Wife, ii. 1. 
Stock-board (stok'bord), . 1. In brickmak- 
ing, a board over which the mold is passed, and 
which forms the bottom of the mold in molding. 
2. In organ-building, the upper board of a 
wind-chest. 
Stock-book (stok'buk), n. In com., a book in 
which a detailed account is kept of the stock of 
goods on hand. 
stock-bow (stok 'bo), n. Acrossbow of any kind ; 
a bow mounted on a stock. 
stock-breeder (stok'bre'der), . One whose 
occupation is the breeding of live stock; a 
stock-farmer ; a stock-raiser. 
stock-broker (stok'bro'ker), n. [< stock 1 + 
broker.] A broker who, for a commission, at- 
tends to the purchase and sale of stocks or 
shares, and of government and other securities, 
in behalf and for the account of clients. On the 
London stock-exchange brokers cannot deal directly with 
brokers, but must treat with a class of operators called 
jobbers. See jobber?, 4. 
stock-broking (stok'bro'king), n. The business 
of a stock-broker. 
stock-brush (stok'brush), n. A brush in which 
the tufts are arranged on a flat wooden stock 
with a handle. Encyc. Brit., IV. 403. 
stock-buckle (stok'buk"!), n. A buckle used 
to fasten the stock (see stock 1 , n., 10), usually 
at the back of the neck. These buckles were 
frequently of gold, and sometimes jeweled. 
stock-car (stok'kar), . On a railroad, a car 
used to transport live stock, as horses, cattle, 
pigs, and sheep ; a cattle-car, it is usually a long 
covered car, with sides and ends formed with slats for 
ventilation, and is sometimes fitted with conveniences 
for feeding and watering the stock. 
stock-dove (stok'duv), . [< ME. stok-douve, 
stokke-dowe = MD. stock-dttyve ; as stock 1 + 
.dove 1 : so called, according to some writers, be 
cause it was at one time believed to be the 
stock of the many varieties of the domestic 
pigeon ; according to others, from its breeding 
in the stocks of trees.] The wild pigeon of 
Europe, Columba cenas. It is closely related to the 
rock-dove, C. licia, with which it has often been confound- 
ed, but is smaller and darker-colored, without white on 
the neck or wings. Also rarely called hole-dove. Compare 
rock-dove, ring dove. 
stock-duck (stok'duk), n. The common mal- 
lard, Anas boscas. 
stock-eikle (stok'I'kl), n. Same as hickmill. 
[Worcestershire, Eng.] 
stocker (stok'er), n. [< stock 1 + -er 1 .] 1. A 
workman who makes or fits gun-stocks. 
The stocker upon receiving the stock first roughs it into 
shape, or, as it is called, trims it out, with a mallet, chisel, 
and draw-knife. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 249. 
2. One who is employed in the felling and 
grubbing up of trees. [Prov. Eng.] stockers' 
saw, a small saw designed especially for the use of the 
gun-stocker or armorer. 
