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Overstocked, or overgrown, or covered, with grass. [Obs.] Spenser.

yond means of delivery. [Brokers'Cant] Oversold market (Brokers' Cant), a market in which stocks or commodities have been sold "short" to such an extent that it is difficult to obtain them for delivery.

To overstock. Sir. M. Hale.

beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.

A kind of stockaded intrenchment. [New Zealand.] Farrow.

in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.

Of, pertaining to, or including, all the Gothic races. "Ancestral Pangothic stock." Earle.

ent for a man, covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of breeches and stockings in one.

e Cow parsnip. -- Meadow parsnip, the European cow parsnip. -- Poison parsnip, the wild stock of the parsnip. -- Water parsnip, any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sium, the species of which are poisonous.

ocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, or Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible. Guinea, or Sierra Leone, peach, the large edible berry of the Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa. -- Palm peach, the fruit of a Venezuelan palm tree…

he saving of a son or a slave with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property. Burrill.

See Penstock.

A penstock.

To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. "Peopled heaven with angels." Dryden. As the gay motes that people the sunbeams. Milton .

Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray.

-- China, or Indian, pink. See under China. -- Clove pink is Dianthus Caryophyllus, the stock from which carnations are derived. -- Garden pink. See Pheasant's eye. -- Meadow pink is applied to Dianthus deltoides; also, to the ragged robin. -- Maiden pink, Dianthus deltoides. -- Moss pink. See under Moss. -- Pin…

oards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane…

To furnish; to stock, as a house or farm. [Scot.]

Household furniture; stock. [Scot.]

e; hence, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints. "A point of precedence." Selden. "Creeping on from point to point." Tennyson. A lord full fat and in good point. Chaucer.