Word Finder - stocks

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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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A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

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A device, similar to a pillory, formerly used for public humiliation and punishment.

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The frame upon which a ship is built, and from which it is launched.

Spinners could easily run over to Liverpool and buy their cotton from the large stocks displayed at that port.

Of the Aramaean stocks named in Gen.

The people, according to their own traditions, are derived from two stocks, the pure Arabs, descended from Kahtan or Joktan, fourth in descent from Shem; and the Mustarab or naturalized Arabs, from Ishmael.

In 1908 the state debt was $816,785, and the assets in bonds, railway mortgages and bank stocks exceeded the liabilities by $7 1 7,779.

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.

They must watch demand, be able to form reasonable anticipations of its move ments, and at the same time know the existing stocks of cotton, the sales taking place from day to day, and the best forecasts of the coming supplies.

Such stocks, however, usually fail in time, partly from too close interbreeding, partly from the ordinary chances of mortality, and partly from the cumulative effects of strange conditions.

Thus Christ ousted in the stocks and stones the old evil spirits that tenanted them, and took their place.

Those manufacturers who act as merchants aim to retain the merchant profit and must employ a merchant capital in stocks.

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).

The total gold production of the country is from £14,500,000 to £16,000,000, and as not more than three-quarters of a million are required to strengthen existing local stocks, the balance is usually available for export, and the average export of the precious metal during the ten years, 1896-1905, was £12,500,000 per annum.

Inasmuch as the debenture stocks and preference shares would have to be redeemed in 1911 at premiums ranging from 3 to 5 per cent., the state would have to pay the company £253,000 in excess of the total of the outstanding securities in order to enable the ordinary shares to receive par, and in the council's view this payment would diminish the p robability of the Post Office being able to afford a substantial reduction in the telephone charges.

By these measures the counts became citizens, the rural population ceased to rank as serfs, and the Italo-Roman population of the towns absorbed into itself the remnants of Franks, Germans and other foreign stocks.

Within the empire a very great diversity of nationalities is comprised, due to the amalgamation or absorption by the Slav race of a variety of Ural-Altaic stocks, of Turko-Tatars, Turko-Mongols and various Caucasian races.

Much buying might take place when stocks were scanty, with the result that prices would be needlessly forced up; and when stocks were plentiful demand might be weak and prices, therefore, be unduly depressed.

To the north of Aleppo and Antioch live remnants of pre-Aramaean stocks, mixed with many half-settled and settled Turkomans (Yuruks, Avshars, &c.) who came in before the Mahommedan era, and here and there colonies of recently imported Circassians.

Elliot Smith has shown 7 the existence of the two racial stocks in Egypt, the predynastic Nilotic and the invading "Armenoid " from Asia, the man of higher cranial capacity to whom the blossoming of the Egyptian civilization and art out of primitive African barbarism is to be ascribed.

The Samoyedes are recognized as having the face more flattened than undoubtedly Finnish stocks; their eyes are narrower, their complexion and hair darker.

To perpetuate and multiply the choicer varieties, peaches and nectarines are budded upon plum or almond stocks.

For dry situations almond stocks are preferable, but they are not long-lived, while for damp or clayey foams it is better to use certain kinds of plums. Double-working is sometimes beneficial; thus an almond budded on a plum stock may be rebudded with a tender peach, greatly to the advantage of the latter.

He became an associate of Jay Gould in the development and sale of railways; and in 1863 removed to New York City, where, besides speculating in railway stocks, he became a money-lender and a dealer in "puts" and "calls" and "privileges," and in 1874 bought a seat in the New York Stock Exchange.

In 1737 the Fleet ditch between Holborn Bridge and Fleet Bridge was covered over, and Stocks Market was removed from the site of the Mansion House to the present Farringdon Street, and called Fleet market.

Some of the American varieties have been introduced into France and other countries infested with Phylloxera, to serve as stocks on which to graft the better kinds of European vines, because their roots, though perhaps equally subject to the attacks of the insects, do not suffer so much injury from them as the European species.

The natives of Tunisia at the present day belong mainly to two stocks, which may be roughly classified as the Berber and the Arab (q.v.), about two-thirds being of Berber and the remaining third of Arab descent.

But the Berbers of to-day are little more than an incomplete fusion of some four earlier and once independent stocks.

Moreover, all securities underwent such sharp depreciation that, on the one hand, the government hesitated to hand over the bonds representing the purchase-price of the railways, lest such an addition to the volume of stocks should cause further depreciation, and, on the other, the former owners of the nationalized lines found the character of their bargain greatly changed.

Equally contradictory of any such law of development is the circumstance that the Greeks of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C., although Pheidias and other artists were embodying their gods and goddesses in the most perfect of images, nevertheless continued to cherish the rude aniconic stocks and stones of their ancestors.

In France, where large stocks of alcohol were left over from the manufacture of explosives during the war, it was unable to compete with petrol as regards price, and was only being used in comparatively small quantities, and mixed with benzol.

It is most probable that the two stocks have Asiatic ancestors in common, though the Polynesians remain today, what they must have always been in remote times, a distinct race.

The vineyards have been replanted with American stocks.

From 1904 to 1908 the share of the United States in the worlds output averaged 28-2%, and in the worlds consumption (disregarding stocks) 27.5%.

With the stocks, when a whiteflowered and hairless form is crossed with a cream-flowered and hairless one, all the offspring are purple and hairy.

In theory, the knight was the defender of widows and orphans; but in practice wardships and marriages were bought and sold as a matter of everyday routine like stocks and shares in the modern market.

The selection of suitable stocks is a matter still requiring much scientific experiment.

Apples, for the same reason, are " worked " on the " paradise " or "doucin " stocks, which from their influence on the scion are known as dwarfing stocks.

Scions from a tree which is weakly, or liable to injury by frosts, are strengthened by engrafting on robust stocks.

Lindley has pointed out that, while in Persia, its native country, the peach is probably best grafted on the peach, or on its wild type the almond, in England, where the summer temperature of the soil is much lower than that of Persia, it might be expected, as experience has proved, to be most successful on stocks of the native plum.

Partial starvation will sometimes effect this; hence the grafting of freegrowing fruit trees upon dwarfing stocks, as before alluded to, and also the " ringing " or girdling of fruit trees, i.e.

In determining the choice of stocks, the nature of the soil in which the grafted trees are to grow should have full weight.

Standard trees, however, are budded on a sturdy young shoot close to the top. In either case the stocks should have been carefully planted at least the previous November when the work is to be done in the open air the following July or August.

The most important use to which this mode of propagation is put is, however, the increase of roses, and of the various plums used as stocks for working the choicer stone fruits.

But summer pruning has been much extended since the introduction of restricted growth and the use of dwarfing stocks.

Some of the more popular annuals, hardy and half-hardy, have been very much varied as regards habit and the colour of the flowers, and purchases may be made in the seed shops of such things as China asters, stocks, Chinese and Indian pinks, larkspurs, phloxes and others, amongst which some of the most beautiful of the summer flowers may be found.

Of those that are liable to suffer injury in winter, as the Brompton and Queen Stocks, a portion should be potted and wintered in cold frames ventilated as freely as the weather will permit.

Plant out gladioli, if not done, tigridias and fine stocks.

Plant out, during the last week, dahlias, hardy pelargoniums, stocks and calceolarias, protecting the dahlias from slight frosts.

Propagate the different sorts of stone fruit trees by budding on other trees or on prepared stocks.

Fill the pits with pots of stocks, mignonette and hardy annuals for planting out in spring, along with many of the hardy sorts of greenhouse plants; the whole ought to be thoroughly ventilated, except in frosty weather.

Recreation grounds include Victoria Park and Peel Park, in which are preserved the old market cross and stocks.

The Kaszubes, and especially the Mazurs, may be considered as separate stocks of the Polish family.