Word Meanings - WARES - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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- 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. - STOCK-BLIND
Blind as a stock; wholly blind. - MERCHANDISER
A trader. Bunyan. - 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. - WARES
See WARE - 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. - GOODSHIP
Favor; grace. Gower. - STOCKINET
An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under-garments, etc., are made. - GOODS
See 3 - 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. - MERCHANDISE
1. The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities. Spenser. 2. The act or business of trading; trade; traffic. - 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. - STOCKJOBBING
The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber. - STOCKINGER
A stocking weaver. - STOCKDOVE
A common European wild pigeon , so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees. Note: The name is applied, also, to other related species, - STOCKING
A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven. Blue stocking. See Bluestocking. -- Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other hosiery goods. (more info) covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches, or - BEETLESTOCK
The handle of a beetle. - BLUESTOCKINGISM
The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry. - UNDERSTOCK
To supply insufficiently with stock. A. Smith. - DRY GOODS
A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. - DIESTOCK
A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws. - MOCKINGSTOCK
A butt of sport; an object of derision. - TREASURY STOCK
Issued stock of an incorporated company held by the company itself. - ROOTSTOCK
A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s - GAZINGSTOCK
A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt. Bp. Hall. - PENSTOCK
1. A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses. 2. The barrel of a wooden pump.