7. 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
[Obs.]
With a linen stock on one leg.
Shak. 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 (M. 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 as trees, chains of salpæ, 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.
