stock-exchange 
stock-exchange (stok'eks-chanj"), H. 1. A 
building, place, or mart where stocks or shares 
are bought and sold.-3 An association of 
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feet in his stockings (that is, with his shoes off). Lisle- 
thread stocking. See thread.- Silk stockings. See 
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stog 
Now and afterwards I found out that he was a native of 
the colony, a very great stuck rider, and was principal <>vi i - 
seer to Mr. clunks Morton. 
//. Kiivjdry, Hillyars and Burtons, xlvlil. 
uicipal authority, or by corporations concerned sto ckinger (stok'ing-er), n. 
in the business connected with the carrying on { One who knits or weav. 
of railways, mines, manufactures, banks, or 
other commercial or industrial pursuits. 
stock-farm (stok'l'iirm), H, A farm devoted to 
stock-breeding. 
stock-farmer (stok'far"nier), n. A farmer who 
chiefly engaged in the breeding and rearing 
[< stocking + 
weaves stockings. 
(stok'rom), . A room in which is 
kept a reserved stock of material! or goods 
ready for use or stile. 
StOCkS (stoks), II. III. Sec all irk*, 12. 
2. One who deals in stockings and other small 
articles of apparel. 
is chiefly engaged in tne breeding ami rearing stockill g et (Jtok-ing-ef), n. Same as stockist. 
of different kinds of live stock. Also called s t oc king-frame (stok'ing-fram), . A special 
form of knitting-machine ; also, a general term 
for the knitting-machine. 
store-farmer. 
stock-fathert (stok'fa/THer), n. A progenitor. 
Stock-feeder (stok'fe"der), . 1. One who is 
chiefly engaged in the feeding or fattening of 
live stock; a stock-farmer.-2. An attachment stocking-machine (stok'ing-ma-shen*), n. 
to a manger tor the automatic supply of a cer- rtSSg^gSS or knitting-machine. 
A bot- 
: trans- 
- stockill _ 
tain quantity of ] feed to stock at hxed intervals. stocking- 
Stock-fishl (stokTish), [< ME. stokefysclte, tl tit * A 
stokfysche = D. MLG. stokvisch = MHG. stoc- 
visch, G. stockftsch = Sw. stockfisk = Dan. stok- 
fisk; as stock*, n., +fislt*. The exact sense in 
The robust rural Saion degenerates in the mills to the stock-saddle (stok'sad"!), . A saddle used in 
Leicester stockint/er, to the imbecile Manchester spinner. (i ie western United Sluti-s, mi improvement of 
Emerson, English Traits, K. tue ol( j Span i s i, au d Mexican saddle. Its pecu- 
liarity is its heavy tree and iron born, made to withstand 
ii strong strain from a rope or reata. 
For a long spell of such work a stock-saddle is far less 
tiring than the ordinary Eastern or English one, and in 
every way superior to it. 
T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 863. 
stocking Stock-station (stok'sta"shon), n. A ranch or 
g stock-farm. [Australia.] 
stock-still (stok'stil'), a. Still as a stock or 
fixed post; perfectly still. 
If he begins a digression, from that moment, I observe, 
tie-tit, 'Acredula caudata', or A. rosea : trans- hu whole work Bta " ds " oc *^^_ Wstnm shandy, L 22. 
the long woven nest,' likened to' a stocking, stock-stone (stok'ston), . 
Swainson. 
aim- 
;-loom (stok'ing-18m), n. A 
(stok'ing-ma'ker), w. 
caudata, or A. rosea 
which stocfeia here used is uncertain; various tokig ^ (stok'ing-yarn), n. Loosely before currying, 
views are reflected m the quotations.] Certain t ,f * , Aj e * ia n v f ' 8 - 
A scouring-stone 
used in the stretching and smoothing of leather 
gadoid fish which are cured by splitting and 
drying hard without salt, as cod, ling, hake, 
haddock, torsk, or cusk. Codfish are thus hard-dried 
spuu thread, made especially for stockings. 
indurate and dryed with coulde. and beaten with clubbes 
or stockes, by reason whereof the (iermayns caule them 
stockeftjsshe. 
R. Eden, tr. of Jacobus Ziglerus (First Books on America, 
[ed. Arber, p. 303). 
Cogan says of stockfish, "Concerning which fish I will 
say no more than Erasmus hath written in his Colloquio. 
There is a kind of tishe which is called in English Stock- 
fish: it nourisheth no more-than a stock." . . . Stockfish 
whilst it is unbeaten is called fiuckhorne, because it is so 
tough ; when it is beaten upon the stock, it is termed stock- 
fish. Quoted in Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 155, note. 
I've seen you with St. John O stockishness ! 
Wear such a run , and never call to mind 
St. John's head in a charger? 
Browning, Stratford, iii. 3. 
stock-jobber (stok'job"er), . 
stock-fish 2 (stok'fisb), . [< stock*, n., 22, + 
ulates iu stocks for gain; one whose occupa- 
tion is the purchase and sale of stocks or shares. 
Publick Knaves and Stock-jobbers pass for Wits at her 
end of the Town, as common Cheats and Gamesters do at 
yours. Steele, Tender Husband, ii. 1. 
stock-jobbery (stok'job"er-i), re. The practice 
, -.-. or business of dealing in stocks or shares. 
fish*.} In fish-culture, fish adapted or used for stock-jobbing (stok' joV'ing), re. The business 
stocking rivers, ponds, lakes, etc. of dealing iu stocks or shares ; the purchase and 
stock-gang (stok'gang), 71. In a saw-mill, a sa i e o f stocks, bonds, etc., as carried on by job- 
group or gang of saws arranged in a frame and bers wno ope rate on their own account, 
used for reducing a log or balk to boards, etc., stockless (stok'les), a. Without a stock: as, 
at one passage through the machine. A saw stoc ]fi ess anchors; stockless guns, 
used in such a stock-gang is called a stock-saw, stock-list (stok'list), n. A list, published daily 
Stock-gillyflower (stok'jil"i-flou-6r),n. A plant or periodically in connection with a stock-ex- 
of the genus Matthiola, chiefly M . incana : so c h angej enumerating the leading stocks dealt 
called as having a woody stem, to distinguish ^ tne pr i ces current, the actual transactions, 
it from the clove-gillyflower or carnation. e j c _ 
stock-hawk (stok'hak), re. The peregrine fal- S t ckman (stok'man), n.; pi. stockmen (-men). &ntt." 
n.nn. Falco nfirenrintts. See cut under duck- i A , ,, i,., \* n 'a ,.1,.,, >,,-,. ^f *>ia oi-n/ilr in on 
con, Falco peregrinus. See cut under duck 
hawk. [Shetland.] 
Stock-holder (stok'hoFder), w. One who is a 
proprietor of stock in the public funds, or who 
holds some of the shares of a bank or other com- 
pany. 
Stock-horse (stok'hfirs), . A horse used on an 
Australian station in driving, mustering, cut- 
ting out, and similar work. 
He was an aged stockhorse, which I had bought very 
cheap, as being a secure animal to begin with. 
" " y, Hillyars and Burtons, 1. 
A man who has charge of the stock in an 
establishment of any kind. 2. A stock-farmer 
or rancher. 3. A man employed by a stock- 
farmer as a herdsman or the like. [U. S. and 
Australia.] 
1. A market 
stock-tackle (stok'tak"!), n. A tackle used in 
handling an anchor and rousing it up to secure 
it for sea: usually called a stock-and-lill tackle. 
stock-taking (stok 'talking), n. See to take 
A train of cars car- 
[U. S.] 
The curlew, Nu- 
menivs arquata : the whaup. 
Stockwork (stok'werk), . [< stock* + icork; tr. 
G. stochcerk.] In mining, that kind of ore-de- 
posit in which the ore is pretty generally or uni- 
One who spec- f orm i y distributed through a large mass of rock, 
"*"""> "">"- so that tne excavations are not limited to a cer- 
tain narrow zone, as they are in the case of an 
ordinary fissure-vein. This mode cf occurrence is 
almost exclusively limited to, and very characteristic of, 
stanniferous deposits, and the word is used especially in 
describing those of the Erzgebirge. Also called stockuerk 
(the German name). 
The name of interlaced masses, or slockvnrks, is given 
to masses of igneous rock penetrated by a great number 
of little veins of metallic ores whic h cross in various ways. 
Cation, Mining (tr. by be Neve Foster and Galloway), L 47. 
The stockwerk consists of a series of small veins, inter- 
lacing with each other and ramifying through a certain 
portion of the rock, 
J. D. Whitney, Met. Wealth of the U. S., p. 39. 
Stocky (stok'i), a. [< stock* + -y*. Cf. stogy.] 
1. Short and stout ; stumpy; stock-like. 
They had no titles of honour among them but such as 
denoted some bodily strength or perfection : as, such a 
one "the tall," such a one "the stocky." such a one "the 
Addison, Spectator, No. 483. 
2. In zool., of stout or thick-set form ; stout- 
bodied. 3. In bot., having a strong, stout stem, 
not spindling. 
Stocky plants, vigorous, and growing rapidly, are better 
than simply early plants. Science, XIV. 364. 
change.-2. The purchase and sale of stocks 
orshares: as the S tocfc-7arfciwasdull.-3. A 
cattle-market. 
Stockily (stok'i-li), to. In a stocky manner ; 
short and stout: as, a stocUly built person. 
n. 
n 
^ , 
4 
The great eagle-owl 
of Europe, 'Bubo ignavus. 
Stock-indicator (8tok'in"di-ka-tor), n. See stock-pot (stok'pot), re. A pot in which soup- 
indicator, stock is prepared and kept ready for use. 
Stockinet (stok-i-net'),. [Adapted from stock- stock-printer (stok'prin'tfir), re. An instrument 
inget, < stocking + -et.} An elastic knitted tex- for automatically printing stock quotations 
tile fabric, of which undergarments, etc., are transmitted by telegraph; a stock-indicator, 
made. Also spelled stockinget or stockingette, and stock-pump (stok'pump), n. A pump which, 
also called jersey, jersey cloth, and elastic cloth, by means of levers, is operated by the weight 
stocking (stok'ing), re. [< stock* + dim. -ing.} o f an animal as it walks on the platform of the 
1 . A close-fitting covering for the foot and low- pump, seeking water. Tne D0) 
erleg. stockings were originally made of cloth or milled stock-punished (stok'pun"isht), a. Punished j^^^off, 
stuff, sewed together, but they are now usually knitted by by being confined in the stocks. Shak., Lear, . 
the hand or woven in a frame, the material being wool, cot- ..< , ,P n o. Wet, 
ton, or silk. '" * " rstok - Ders x ,, A f^ use d for stoechiology, stcechiometrical, etc 
Their legges were adorn'd with close long white silke 8 JrX ~P s of 'ariv association or stoicheiology, etc. 
stockings, curiously embroidered with golde to the Midde- the common purposes ot any a 
legge. gathering of persons. 
Chapman, Masque of Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn. stock-raiser (stok'ra/zer), n. One who raises 
2. Something like or suggesting such a covering, cattle and horses ; a stock-farmer, 
(o) The lower part of the leg of a quadruped when of a dtt- stock-ranch (stok rancn), re. 
ferent color from the rest: as, a horse or cow with white [Western U. S.] 
, M. An inciosure con- 
a railroad, or a slaughter-house, or 
; itc., for the distribution, sorting, 
sale, or temporary keeping of cattle, swine, 
sheep, and horses. Such yards are often of 
J -" pens, 
g, etc. 
form of 
ult. o"f stock 
[Colloq., : 
"Maggie " said Tom, . . . "you don't know what I've 
got in my pockets. ". . . "No," said Maggie. "Eowstodgy 
they look, Tom ! Is it marls or cobnuts?" 
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, 1. 5. 
2. Crammed together roughly; lumpy; crude 
and indigestible. [Colloq., Eng.] 
The book has too much the character of a stodgy sum- 
Saturday Rev. 
HaWicell. [Prov. Eng.] 
i .i. Same as 
3. Wet; miry. 
s ct 
A stocK-iarm. 
in the treatment of varicose veins. In one's stockings 
or stocking-feet, without shoes or slippers : used m 
statements of stature-measurements: as, he stands six 
as a herdsman on an unfenced station in Aus- 
tralia. 
yioiciivwiuyy, etc. 
tog (stog), v. ; pret. and pp. stogged, ppr. 
ging. [< stog, re. ; ult. a var. of stock*, v. 
stodge, v.} I. trans. 1. To plunge a stick down 
through (the soil), in order to ascertain its 
depth; probe (a pool or marsh) with a pole. 
[Scotch.] 2. To plunge and fix iu mire; stall 
in mud ; mire. [Colloq., Eng.] 
It was among the ways of good Queen Bess, 
Who ruled as well as mortal ever can, sir. 
When she was stogg'd, and the country in a mess, 
She was wont to send for a Devon man, sir. 
West Country song, quoted in Kingsley's Westward Ho, t 
