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[Stock, Teut. siocco, a rapier, Italian.] A thrust; astoc- 
cado.—To see thee here, to see thee there; to see thee pass 
thy puncto, thy stock, thy reverse. Shakspeare. —Some¬ 
thing made of linen; acravat; a close neckcloth. Anciently 
a cover for the leg, now stocking. —Ilis lackey with a lineu 
stock on one leg, and a kersey boot-hose on the other. 
Shakspeare. —A race; a lineage; a family. 
Say what stock he springs of.— 
—The noble house of Marcius. Shakspeare. 
Thou has seen one world begin, and end. 
And man, as from a second stock proceed. Milton. 
The principal; capital store: fund already provided. The 
word is rarely found in the plural.—We cast our eyes upon 
all sorts of good that is to be done : The poor in extremity 
must be holpen ; orphans and aged must be provided for; 
our poor friends that are behind hand ; prisoners, and dis¬ 
tressed householders, young tradesmen that want stocks, 
must be thought on. Dr. White. 
Some honour of your own acquire; 
Add to that stock, which justly we bestow, 
Of those blest shades to whom you all things owe. Dry den. 
Yet was she not profuse; but fear’d to waste, 
And wisely manag’d that the stock might last; 
That all might be supply’d, and she not grieve. 
When crouds appear’d, she had not to relieve; 
Which to prevent, she still increas’d her store ; 
Laid up, and spar’d, that she might give the more. Dry den. 
Quantity; store; body.—He proposes to himself no small 
stock of fame in future ages, in being the first who has un¬ 
dertaken this design. Arbuthnot. —Cattle in general. North. 
Pegge. —A fund established by the government, of which 
the value rises and falls by artifice or chance. Dr. Johnson. 
—The word, in this sense, is also old French: “ Stoques, 
a borrowing or taking up money upon interest; whence 
faire stoques, so to borrow.” Cotgrave. 
Statesman and patriot ply alike the stocks. 
Peeress and butler share alike the box. Pope. 
Prison for the legs: commonly also without singular. See 
Stocks. 
To STOCK, v. a. To store; to fill sufficiently. 
I, who before with shepherds in the groves. 
Sung to my oaten pipe their rural loves, 
Manur’d the glebe, and stock'd the fruitful plain. Dryden. 
To lay up in store; as, he stocks what he cannot use.-— 
To put in the stocks. Dr. Johnson —To stock means, 
anciently, to confine. [. siucka, in cippo vel robore tenere 
aut custodhe. Leges ant. Goth. Serenius. So stecken, 
Teut. to confine in the stocks.] See also Stocks. 
Call not your stocks for me; I serve the king. 
On whose employment I was sent to you: 
You shall do small respect, shew too bold malice 
Against the grace and person of my master. 
Stocking his messenger. Shakspeare. 
To extirpate. Sometimes with up. 
The time shall quickly come, thy groves and pleasant springs, 
Where to the mirthful merle the warbling mavis sings. 
The painful labourer’s hand shall stock, the roots to burn. 
Drayton. 
The wild hoar not only spoils her branches, but stocks up 
her roots. Dec. of Chr. Piety. 
STOCK, a parish in Essex; 3 miles north-north-east of 
Billericay. Population 532. 
STOCK, or Stoke, a parish in Worcestershire; 7 miles 
east-south-east of Droitwich. 
STOOKACH, a small town of Germany, in Baden, on a 
small river of the same name; 15 miles north-west of Con¬ 
stance, and 19 north-east of Schaffhausen. The French 
under Jourdan, were defeated here by the Austrians under 
the archduke Charles, on 25lh March, 1799. 
Vox.. XXIII, No. 1593. 
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F STOCKAU, a small town of the Bavarian states, in the 
principality of Neuburgh, on the small river Paar; 5 miles 
east-south-east of Bayreuth. 
STOCKBRIDGE, a market town of England, in the 
county of Hants, situated on the road from Winchester to 
Salisbury, and on the eastern side of the river Test. It con¬ 
sists chiefly of a range of houses scattered along each side of 
the highway. The inhabitants possess little trade, and de¬ 
pend chiefly on the resort of travellers, the town being a con¬ 
siderable thoroughfare. A new bridge was lately erected 
here over the Test. About two miles to the westward, on 
Houghton-down, is a good race course. Stockbridge is a 
borough by prescription, and its government is vested in a 
bailiff, who is the returningofficer; a constable, and aserjeant 
at mace. It sends two members to parliament, a privilege 
first possessed in the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth. 
The right of election is in the inhabitants paying church and 
poor rales. The number of voters is about 57. Both mem¬ 
bers and voters have been frequently cited before the House 
of Commons for bribery and corruption. Market on Thurs¬ 
day; 15 miles east of Salisbury, and 66 west-south-west of 
London. 
STOCKBRIDGE, a township of England, in Worcester¬ 
shire ; 2 miles from Perith. 
STOCKBRIDGE, a small village of England, West 
Riding of Yorkshire; 2| miles north-by-west of Don¬ 
caster. 
STOCKBRIDGE, a post township of the United States, 
in Windsor county, Vermont; 32 miles north-west ofWind- 
sor. Population 700. 
STOCKBRIDGE, a post township of the United States, 
in Berkshire county, Massachusetts; 130 miles west of 
Boston. Population 1372. It is an excellent agricultural 
town, and has a handsome village, and contains a quarry of 
marble. 
STOCKBRIDGE, West, a post township of the United 
States, in Berkshire county, Massachusetts; 135 miles west 
of Boston. Population 1049. Here are very valuable 
quarries of white and blue marble, and an iron mine. The 
town is watered by William’s river and its branches, which 
furnish seats for mills and iron works. 
STOCKBRIDGE HILL, in Hampshire, England, 620 feet 
in height. 
STOCKBROKER, s. One who deals in stock, or the 
public funds. 
STOCKBURY, a parish in Kent; 5 miles west-by-south 
of Milton. 
STO'CKDOVE, «. Ringdove. 
Stockdoves and turtles tell their am’rous pain, 
And, from the lofty elms, of love complain. Dryden. 
STOCKEI.SDORP, a village of Denmark, in Holstein; 
2 miles from Lubeck. It has manufactures of stone-ware, 
carpets, and cards. 
STOCKEN, or Stockhew, a small inland town of the 
Netherlands, in the province of Limburg, on the Maese, with 
1000 inhabitants; 12 miles north of Maestricht. 
STOCKENITZ, orSTEKENissE, a small river in the south 
of the Danish dominions, in the duchy of Lauenburg. It 
has its source from a lake near the small town of Mollen, and 
flows into the Elbe. A canal dug from this lake to the river 
Trave, conveys boats from Boitzenberg to Lubeck. 
STOCKERAU, a small town of Lower Austria, on the 
Danube; 13 miles north-north-west of Vienna. It contains 
including its parish, 3600 inhabitants. It has extensive corn 
markets; also some cotton manufactures. 
STOCKERSTONE, a parish of England, in Leicester¬ 
shire ; 10 miles north-east of Market Harborough. 
STOCKFISH, s. [stockcvisch, Dutch.] Dried cod, 
so called from its hardness. 
He’s to be made more tractable, I doubt not:— 
Yes, if they taw him as they do whit-leather 
Upon an iron, or beat him soft like stock-fsh. Beaum. and FI. 
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