Word Meanings - STOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See DRYDEN (more info) stock, OHG. stoc, Icel. stokkr, Sw. stock, Dan. stok, and AS. stycce a piece; cf. Skr. tuj to urge, thrust. Cf. Stokker, Stucco, and Tuck 1. The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant;

Additional info about word: STOCK

See DRYDEN (more info) stock, OHG. stoc, Icel. stokkr, Sw. stock, Dan. stok, and AS. stycce a piece; cf. Skr. tuj to urge, thrust. Cf. Stokker, Stucco, and Tuck 1. The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. Job xiv. 8,9. 2. The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted. The scion overruleth the stock quite. Bacon. 3. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post. All our fathers worshiped stocks and stones. Milton. Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick. Fuller. 4. Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense. Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks. Shak. 5. The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached. Specifically: -- 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. The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace. 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. The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor. The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself. A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock. 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. 6. The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family. And stand betwixt them made, when, severally, All told their stock. Chapman. Thy mother was no goddess, nor thy stock From Dardanus. Denham. 7. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STOCK)

• Commodity
• Staple
• ware
• article
• stock
• Descendant
• Offspring
• progeny
• scion
• seed
• branch
• issue
• house
• family
• lineage
• Fund
• Stock
• capital
• investment
• Generation
• Age
• period
• era
• epoch
• lifetime
• offspring
• race
• origination
• breed
• formation
• Merchandise
• Goods
• commodities
• wares

Related words: (words related to STOCK)

• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• BREVIARY
  summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• STOCKER
  One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
• LIFETIME
  The time that life continues.
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• STOCKWORK
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• STOCK-BLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• BREWER
  One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
• PERIODONTAL
  Surrounding the teeth.
• BREAD
  To spread. Ray.
• BRANCHLESS
  Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
• HOUSEWIFE
  A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• SCION
  A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker. 2. Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• NUDIBRANCHIATA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
• ABRANCHIAL
  Abranchiate.
• PYGOBRANCHIA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
• LIBRETTO
  A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. The words themselves.
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• WAREHOUSE
  A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.
• POSTHOUSE
  1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• HENHOUSE
  A house or shelter for fowls.
• PODOBRANCH
  One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.