Word Finder - stock

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A store or supply.

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The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.

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The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.

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Stock theater, summer stock theater.

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The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.

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Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.

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A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.

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Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.

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A bar, stick or rod.

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A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.

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A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle

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A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.

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A cover for the legs; a stocking.

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A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

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(by extension) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.

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The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.

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(in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.

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(in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.

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In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.

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The beater of a fulling mill.

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To have on hand for sale.

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The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.

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To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.

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to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools

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To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.

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To put in the stocks as punishment.

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To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.

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To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.

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Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.

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stock items

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(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.

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Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.

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He gave me a stock answer

Guess we should start stock piling bottles.

I'll stock the fridge and change the linens.

The stock pond stared up at her coldly from the tawny pasture like a huge eye, the ice-covered edges surrounding a deep blue iris.

He'd like to get a stock dog like the Great Pyrenees Carmen had.

They don't stock the Parkside Sentinel in all the libraries around the country like they do the big city papers.

With the proceeds of a recent stock sale, Fred O'Connor had invested in a complete computer system and was off and running.

Aren't you going to ask me all those stock questions like 'Weren't you tempted?

Sarah, your stock dealings have outperformed the market every year since 1933, of course you're going to be investigated.

He didn't, however, give a quick, stock answer to the possibility.

I'm offering you full funding for your endeavor; secure operating quarters, any place of your choice, sizeable salaries for all of you involved and a gift of stock to each that will assure a lifetime income from dividends.

I played the vampire in a summer stock production.

We buy that and stock it in the freezer.

Before he had found a stock in all respects suitable the city of Kouroo was a hoary ruin, and he sat on one of its mounds to peel the stick.

In 1906 the export of live stock was prohibited for that reason.

Now that you're going to make a little money on those gold coins, added to what you took in on that Flotsam Electronics stock last June, maybe you should consider seeing the light and turning Republican.

Besides receiving taxes, they pay the creditors of the state in their departments, conduct all operations affecting departmental loans, buy and sell government stock (rentes) on behalf of individuals, and conduct certain banking operations.

She patted the handle of her whip with one hand and caressed the stock of her rifle with the other.

No wonder that man added this bird to his tame stock--to say nothing of the eggs and drumsticks.

To,the above taxes must be added the tax on Stock Exchange transactions and the tax of 4% on dividends from stocks and shares (other than state loans).

He found the country peopled partly by tribes of Gallo-Celtic, partly by tribes of Germanic stock, the river Rhine forming roughly the line of demarcation between the races.

The Albanians in Greece and Italy, though separated for six centuries from the parent stock, have not yet been absorbed by the surrounding populations.

The capital value of land, which greatly decreased during the last twenty years of the i9th century, is estimated at 3,120,000,000, and that of stock, buildings, implements, &c., at 340,000,000.

Speranski, wearing a gray swallow-tail coat with a star on the breast, and evidently still the same waistcoat and high white stock he had worn at the meeting of the Council of State, stood at the table with a beaming countenance.

We were each given shares of stock, fully paid for, that would provide substantial dividends for future years.

Yet, why was it that when a woman married a man with money and merely washed his clothes, cooked his meals, cleaned up after him and tended his stock... why did people think he was taking care of her?

Gradually Durham, Short horn, Hereford and other stock were introduced to improve the native breeds, with results so satisfactory that now herds of threequarters-bred cattle are to be found in all parts of the country.

Rothschild and Hartert think "it is more natural to assume the disappearance of a great stock of animals, the remains of which have survived,.

So let's say your parents bought Coca Cola stock their entire life, left it all to you, and you are able to live off the dividend payments of the stock.

You'll continue to receive dividends for the stock in your names so there will be sufficient funds for you all to move on.

Under it the cost of the necessary land was to be found as to one-third by the state and as to the residue locally, but this arrangement proved unworkable and was abandoned in 1845, when it was settled that the state should provide the land and construct the earthworks and stations, the various companies which obtained concessions being left to make the permanent way, provide rolling stock and work the lines for certain periods.

He's registered, and he comes from quality stock.

Because investing in new companies is entirely different than knowing when to buy and sell a stock.

I don't want him practicing on my hand picked stock.

And who'd take care of the stock?

It is the largest peanut market in the world, is in a great truck-gardening region, and makes large shipments of cotton (822,930 bales in 1905), oysters, coal, fertilizers, lumber, grain, fruits, wine, vegetables, fish and live stock.

The guia tax on the transport of stock from one province to another, which has been declared unconstitutional in the courts, is still enforced, and is a vexatious tax upon the stock-raiser, while the consumption, or octroi, tax in Buenos Aires and other cities is a heavy burden upon small producers.

Fresh-caught wild animals have to be obtained to replenish the stock.

The cure proposed by Pasteur was simply to take care that the stock whence graine was obtained should be healthy, and the offspring would then be healthy also.

Notwithstanding certain points of resemblance in structure and phonetics, Albanian is entirely distinct from the neighbouring languages; in its relation to early Latin and Greek it may be regarded as a co-ordinate member of the Aryan stock.

He urges that the similarities of some of the primitive races of India and Africa to the aborigines of Australia are indications that they were peopled from one common stock.

An examination of their language seems to indicate that, it belongs to the Mon-Khmer group of languages, and the anthropological information forthcoming concerning the Sakai points to the conclusion that they show a greater affinity to the people of the Mon-Khmer races than to the Malayan stock.

The horses of Vermont have been famous in the development of American racing stocks; the Morgan stock is best known, and other famous Vermont strains are Messenger and Black Hawk.

Cattle and poultry are the principal classes of live stock.

The characters in his plays are the stock characters of the new comedy of Athens, and they remind us also of the standing figures of the Fabulae atellanae (Maccus, Bucco, Dossennus, &c.).

The god and his viceregent, the king, had long ceased to disturb tenancy, and were content with fixed dues in naturalia, stock, money or service.

House, of Vermont, U.S., and was very successfully worked on some of the American telegraph lines till 1860, after which it was gradually displaced by other forms. Various modifications of the instrument are still employed for stock telegraph purposes.

The stock of the Electric and International Company, the return on which had reached 10 per cent.

In the Alpine districts there is a stock distinct from the Podolian, generally called razza montanina.

Another stock, with no close allies nearer than the south of France, is found in the plain of Racconigi and Carmagnola; the mouse-colored Swiss breed occurs in the neighborhood of Milan; the Tirolese breed stretches south to Padua and Modena; and a red-coated breed named of Reggio or Friuli is familiar both in what were the duchies of Parma and Modena, and in the provinces of lJdine and Treviso.

In Sicily the so-called Modica race is of note; and in Sardinia there is a distinct stock which seldom exceeds the weight of 700 lb.