Word Meanings - STOCK-BLIND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Blind as a stock; wholly blind.

Related words: (words related to STOCK-BLIND)

• STOCKER
  One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
• 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.
• BLINDMAN'S BUFF
  A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is. Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.
• STOCK-BLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• BLINDNESS
  State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively. Darwin. Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color. See Daltonism.
• BLIND; BLINDE
  See BLENDE
• STOCKADE
  A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other to form a barrier, or defensive fortification. 2. An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes. (more info) with estocade; see 1st Stoccado); fr. It. steccata
• STOCKY
  1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent. Addison. Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems. Mrs. H. H. Jackson. 2. Headstrong. G. Eliot.
• STOCK-STILL
  Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still. His whole work stands stock-still. Sterne.
• BLINDFISH
  A small fish destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.
• WHOLLY
  1. In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly. Nor wholly overcome, nor wholly yield. Dryden. 2. To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully. They employed themselves wholly in domestic life. Addison.
• STOCKJOBBER
  One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.
• STOCKINET
  An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under-garments, etc., are made.
• STOCKISH
  Like a stock; stupid; blockish. Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. Shak.
• STOCKFISH
  Young fresh cod. (more info) 1. Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.
• STOCKHOLDER
  One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.
• BLINDER
  One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, blinds.
• BLINDAGE
  A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.
• STOCKJOBBING
  The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.
• STOCKINGER
  A stocking weaver.
• BEETLESTOCK
  The handle of a beetle.
• BLUESTOCKINGISM
  The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
• UNDERSTOCK
  To supply insufficiently with stock. A. Smith.
• DIESTOCK
  A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.
• MOCKINGSTOCK
  A butt of sport; an object of derision.
• STONE-BLIND
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• UNBLINDFOLD
  To free from that which blindfolds. Spenser.
• TREASURY STOCK
  Issued stock of an incorporated company held by the company itself.