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Not assented; -- said specif. of stocks or bonds the holders of which refuse to deposit them by way of assent to an agreement altering their status, as in a readjustment.

Not listed; specif. (New York Stock Exchange),

To sell in large quantities, as stock; to get rid of. [Brokers' Cant, U. S.]

To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking.

Separated from its trunk or stock. [Obs.]

An extensive tribe of North American Indians of the Shoshone stock, inhabiting Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent regions. They are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of North American Indians.

A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman. [Southwestern U. S.] Bartlett.

Intended for the treatment of varicose veins; -- said of elastic stockings, bandages. and the like.

A white sauce or stock made by boiling down ham, veal, beef, fowl, bouillon, etc., then adding soup stock, seasoning, vegetables, and thickening, and again boiling and straining.

A yellowish amorphous alkaloid extracted from the rootstock of Veratrum album.

el, an old English contradance; -- so called in the United States. Bartlett. -- Virginia stock. (Bot.) See Mahon stock.

A sum or stock of words employed. His vocabulary seems to have been no larger than was necessary for the transaction of business. Macaulay.

oprocta motacilloides) common in Southern Australia, where it is very tame, and frequents stock yards and gardens and often builds its nest about houses; -- called also black fantail. -- Water wagtail. (a) Any one of several species of wagtails of the restricted genus Motacilla. They live chiefly on the shores of pond…

An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted." [Brokers' Cant]

A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree. [Obs.]

ou wilt surely wear away, both thou and this people that is with thee. Ex. xviii. 18. His stock of money began to wear very low. Sir W. Scott. The family . . . wore out in the earlier part of the century. Beaconsfield. To wear off, to pass away by degrees; as, the follies of youth wear off with age. -- To wear on, to…

to incandescence a mantle composed of thoria and ceria. The mantle is made by soaking a "stocking" in a solution of nitrates of thorium and cerium (approx. 99 : 1), drying, and, for use, igniting to burn the thread and convert the nitrates into oxides, which remain as a fragile ash. The light far exceeds that obtained…

In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.

The European curlew; -- called also awp, whaup, great whaup, and stock whaup.

To graft by cutting the scion and stock in a certain manner. See Whip grafting, under Grafting.