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Webster 1913 Edition

Stock

Stock

(stŏk)
,
Noun.
[AS.
stocc
a stock, trunk, stick; akin to D.
stok
, G.
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
a rapier.]
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
.
Shakespeare
5.
The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.
Specifically: –
(a)
The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a rifle or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.
(b)
The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
(c)
(Joinery)
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.
(d)
(Naut.)
The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of
Anchor
.
(e)
The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.
(f)
A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.
(g)
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
.
[Eng.]
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.
(Finance)
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
.
8.
(Bookkeeping)
Same as
Stock account
, below.
9.
Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods;
as, to lay in a
stock
of provisions
.
Add to that
stock
which justly we bestow.
Dryden.
10.
(Agric.)
Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm;
as, a
stock
of cattle or of sheep, etc.
; – called also
live stock
.
11.
(Card Playing)
That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.
I must buy the
stock
; send me good cardings.
Beau. & Fl.
12.
A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
[Obs.]
13.
[Cf.
Stocking
.]
A covering for the leg, or leg and foot;
as, upper
stocks
(breeches); nether
stocks
(stockings).
[Obs.]
With a linen
stock
on one leg.
Shakespeare
14.
A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck;
as, a silk
stock
.
15.
pl.
A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.
He shall rest in my
stocks
.
Piers Plowman.
16.
pl.
(Shipbuilding)
The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
17.
pl.
Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
[Eng.]
18.
(Bot.)
Any cruciferous plant of the genus
Matthiola
;
as, common
stock
(
Matthiola incana
) (see
Gilly-flower
); ten-weeks
stock
(
Matthiola annua
)
.
19.
(Geol.)
An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.
20.
A race or variety in a species.
21.
(Biol.)
In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see
Person
), as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
22.
The beater of a fulling mill.
Knight.
23.
(Cookery)
A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; – used in making soup, gravy, etc.
Bit stock
.
See
Bitstock
.
–
Dead stock
(Agric.)
,
the implements of husbandry, and produce stored up for use; – in distinction from live stock, or the domestic animals on the farm. See def. 10, above.
–
Head stock
.
See
Headstock
.
–
Paper stock
,
rags and other material of which paper is made.
–
Stock account
(Bookkeeping)
,
an account on a merchant's ledger, one side of which shows the original capital, or stock, and the additions thereto by accumulation or contribution, the other side showing the amounts withdrawn.
–
Stock car
,
a railway car for carrying cattle.
–
Stock company
(Com.)
,
an incorporated company the capital of which is represented by marketable shares having a certain equal par value.
–
Stock duck
(Zool.)
,
the mallard.
–
Stock exchange
.
(a)
The building or place where stocks are bought and sold; stock market; hence, transactions of all kinds in stocks
.
(b)
An association or body of stockbrokers who meet and transact business by certain recognized forms, regulations, and usages
.
Wharton. Brande & C.
–
Stock farmer
,
a farmer who makes it his business to rear live stock.
–
Stock gillyflower
(Bot.)
,
the common stock. See
Stock
,
Noun.
, 18.
–
Stock gold
,
gold laid up so as to form a stock, or hoard.
–
Stock in trade
,
the goods kept for sale by a shopkeeper; the fittings and appliances of a workman.
Simmonds.
–
Stock list
,
a list of stocks, or shares, dealt in, of transactions, and of prices.
–
Stock lock
,
a lock inclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a door.
–
Stock market
.
(a)
A place where stocks are bought and sold; the stock exchange
.
(b)
A market for live stock.
–
Stock pigeon
.
(Zool.)
Same as
Stockdove
.
–
Stock purse
.
(a)
A common purse, as distinguished from a private purse.
(b)
(Mil.)
Moneys saved out of the expenses of a company or regiment, and applied to objects of common interest
.
[Eng.]
–
Stock shave
,
a tool used by blockmakers.
–
Stock station
,
a place or district for rearing stock.
[Australia]
W. Howitt.
–
Stock tackle
(Naut.)
,
a tackle used when the anchor is hoisted and secured, to keep its stock clear of the ship's sides.
Totten.
–
Stock taking
,
an examination and inventory made of goods or stock in a shop or warehouse; – usually made periodically.
–
Tail stock
.
See
Tailstock
.
–
To have something on the stock
,
to be at work at something.
–
To take stock
,
to take account of stock; to make an inventory of stock or goods on hand.
Dickens.
–
To take stock in
.
(a)
To subscribe for, or purchase, shares in a stock company.
(b)
To put faith in; to accept as trustworthy;
as,
to take stock in
a person's fidelity
.
[Slang]
–
To take stock of
,
to take account of the stock of; to take an inventory of; hence, to ascertain the facts in regard to (something).
[Eng.]
At the outset of any inquiry it is proper
to take stock of
the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field.
Leslie Stephen.
Syn. – Fund; capital; store; supply; accumulation; hoard; provision.

Stock

(stŏk)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Stocked
(stŏkt)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Stocking
.]
1.
To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.
2.
To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply;
as, to
stock
a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to
stock
a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to
stock
land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass.
3.
To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.
4.
To put in the stocks.
[R.]
Shak.
To stock an anchor
(Naut.)
,
to fit it with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
–
To stock cards
(Card Playing)
,
to arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; – also called
to stack the deck
.
[Cant]
–
To stock down
(Agric.)
,
to sow, as plowed land, with grass seed, in order that it may become swarded, and produce grass.
–
To stock up
,
to extirpate; to dig up.

Stock

,
Adj.
Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing;
as, a
stock
actor; a
stock
play; a
stock
phrase; a
stock
response; a
stock
sermon.
“A stock charge against Raleigh.”
C. Kingsley.
Stock company
(Theater)
,
a company of actors regularly employed at one theater, or permanently acting together in various plays under one management.

Webster 1828 Edition

Stock

STOCK

,
Noun.
[G., a stem, a staff, a stick, a block. This word coincides with stake, stick, stack; that which is set or fixed.]
1.
The stem or main body of a tree or other plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the origin and support of the branches. Job 14.
2.
The stem in which a graft is inserted, and which is its support.
The cion overruleth the stock quite.
3.
A post; something fixed, solid and senseless.
When all our fathers worshipd stocks and stones.
4.
A person very stupid, dull and senseless.
Lets be no stoics, nor no stocks.
5.
The handle of any thing.
6.
The wood in which the barrel of a musket or other fire-arm is fixed.
7.
A thrust with a rapier. [Not in use.]
8.
A cravat or band for the neck.
9.
A cover for the leg. [Now stocking.]
10.
The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitors of a family and their direct descendants; lineage; family. From what stock did he spring?
Thy mother was no goddess, nor thy stock from Dardanus--
Men and brothern, children of the stock of Abraham--Acts 13.
11.
A fund; capital; the money or goods employed in trade, manufactures, insurance, banking, &c.; as the stock of a banking company; the stock employed in the manufacture of cotton, in making insurance and the like. Stock may be individual or joint.
12.
Money lent to government, or property in a public debt; a share or shares of a national or other public debt, or in a company debt. The United States borrow of the bank or of individuals, and sell stock bearing an interest of five, six or seven per cent. British stocks are the objects of perpetual speculation.
13.
Supply provided; store. Every one may be charitable out of his own stock. So we say, a stock of honor, a stock of fame.
Add to that stock which justly we bestow.
14.
In agriculture, the domestic animals or beasts belonging to the owner of a farm; as a stock of cattle or of sheep. It is also used for the crop or other property belonging to the farm.
15.
Living beasts shipped to a foreign country; as, a brig sailed yesterday with stock on deck. The cattle are called also live stock.
16.
In the West Indies, the slaves of a plantation.
17.
Stocks, plu. A machine consisting of two pieces of timber, in which the legs of criminals are confined by way of punishment.
18.
The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
19.
The stock of an anchor is the piece of timber into which the shank is inserted.
20.
In book-keeping, the owner or owners of the books.

STOCK

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To store; to supply; to fill; as, to stock the mind with ideas. Asia and Europe are well stocked with inhabitants.
2.
To lay up in store; as, he stocks what he cannot use.
3.
To put in the stocks. [Little used.]
4.
To pack; to put into a pack; as, to stock cards.
5.
To supply with domestic animals; as, to stock a farm.
6.
To supply with seed; as, to stock land with clover or herdsgrass.
7.
To suffer cows to retain their milk for 24 hours or more, previous to sale.
To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.

Definition 2024

Stock

Stock

See also: stock, Stöck, -stock, and stock-

Central Franconian

Noun

Stock m ‎(plural Stöck or Stäck, diminutive Stöckelche or Stäckelche)

  1. (most dialects) stick; staff
  2. (most dialects) floor; storey; level

Usage notes

  • The inflected forms with -ö- are Ripuarian, those with -ä- are Moselle Franconian.

German

Etymology

From Middle High German stoc, from Old High German stoc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃtɔk/

Noun

Stock m ‎(genitive Stocks or Stockes, plural Stöcke or Stöcker, diminutive Stöckchen n)

  1. stick, staff, broken-off twig
  2. floor, storey (UK), story (US), level
    im dritten Stock — on the third floor
  3. stock, supply (but only in commercial terminology and much less common than in English)
  4. (card games) stock of undealt cards
  5. the entirety of roots of a plant; stock
  6. (short for Bienenstock) hive; beehive

Usage notes

  • The official plural is Stöcke.
  • The alternative plural Stöcker is used in northern and eastern Germany (chiefly in colloquial usage).
Declension
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See also

stock

stock

See also: Stock, Stöck, -stock, and stock-

English

Noun

stock ‎(countable and uncountable, plural stocks)

  1. A store or supply
    1. (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
      We have a stock of televisions on hand.
    2. A supply of anything ready for use.
      Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
    3. Railroad rolling stock.
    4. In a card game, a stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
    5. Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
    6. The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
  2. (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
    1. The price or value of the stock for a company on the stock market
      When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.
    2. (figuratively) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
      After that last ****-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.
    3. Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
  3. The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
    1. The type of paper used in printing.
      The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.
    2. Undeveloped film; film stock.
    3. Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
  4. Stock theater, summer stock theater.
  5. The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
    • Bible, Job xiv. 8,9
      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.
    1. (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
      • (Can we date this quote?) Francis Bacon
        The scion overruleth the stock quite.
    2. lineage, family, ancestry
      1. (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
  6. Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
  7. A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached
    1. The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
      • 2013, Tom Turpin, Modern Custom Guns: Walnut, Steel, and Uncommon Artistry, 2nd edition, Iola, Wis.: Gun Digest Books, ISBN 978-1-4402-3646-4, page 47:
        The most underrated component in building a custom gun is the metalsmithing. Stock work immediately attracts attention. Fancy checkering patterns, meticulously executed, are sure to elicit oohs and ahhs.
    2. The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
  8. Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
    1. The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
    2. The tailstock of a lathe
  9. A bar, stick or rod.
    1. A ski pole
    2. (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
    3. (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
    4. (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
  10. A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
  11. (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
  12. (uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
  13. A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
    • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", chapter 116:
      He wore a brown tweed suit and a white stock. His clothes hung loosely about him as though they had been made for a much larger man. He looked like a respectable farmer of the middle of the nineteenth century.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 417:
      His grey waistcoat sported pearl buttons, and he wore a stock which set off to admiration a lean and aquiline face which was almost as grey as the rest of him.
  14. A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
  15. (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking
  16. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Milton
      All our fathers worshipped stocks and stones.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Fuller
      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.
  17. (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare
      Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks.
  18. (Britain, historical) 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.
  19. (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
  20. (Britain, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
  21. (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
  22. The beater of a fulling mill.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
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Translations

Verb

stock ‎(third-person singular simple present stocks, present participle stocking, simple past and past participle stocked)

  1. To have on hand for sale.
    The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
  2. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
    to stock a warehouse with goods
    to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools
    to stock land, i.e. to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass
  3. To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
  4. To put in the stocks as punishment.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
  5. (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
  6. (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
Translations

Adjective

stock ‎(not comparable)

  1. Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
    stock items
    stock sizes
  2. (racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
  3. Straightforward, ordinary, very basic.
    That band is quite stock
    He gave me a stock answer
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Etymology 2

From Italian stoccata

Noun

stock ‎(plural stocks)

  1. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

Borrowing from English stock.

Noun

stock m ‎(plural stocks, diminutive stockje n)

  1. stock, goods in supply
  2. basic capital
  3. shares (equity)

Derived terms

  • stockdividend n

References

  • M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

French

Etymology

Borrowing from English stock.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɔk/

Noun

stock m ‎(plural stocks)

  1. stock, goods in supply

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English stock.

Noun

stock

  1. stock, goods in supply, inventory

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English stock.

Noun

stock m ‎(plural stocks)

  1. stock, inventory

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish stokker, from Old Norse stokkr, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz ‎(“tree-trunk”).

Noun

stock c

  1. a log (trunk of a dead tree)
  2. a stock (of a gun)

Declension

Inflection of stock 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative stock stocken stockar stockarna
Genitive stocks stockens stockars stockarnas

Related terms

See also

Etymology

From Old High German stoc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃtɔk/

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