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An object of ridicule or scorn; a laughingstock. Shak.

A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s

The main part or blade of the rudder, which is connected by hinges, or the like, with the sternpost of a vessel.

Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic); hence, elegantly dressed; aristocratic; luxurious; -- chiefly applied to men, often by way of reproach.

ock or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.

The detachable or movable fore part of a gunstock, lying beneath the barrel or barrels, and forming a hold for the left hand.

The part of a toolrest in which a cutting tool is clamped.

Issued stock of an incorporated company held by the company itself.

High-grade stock in which trust funds may be legally invested. [Colloq.]

To supply insufficiently with stock. A. Smith.

To deprive of a stock; to remove the stock from; to loose from that which fixes, or holds fast.

Destitute of stockings. Sir W. Scott.

The rod or handle to which the lash of a whip is fastened.

A heavy wooden hammer for milling cloth.

ticulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.

A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks. [A Gallicism] [Obs.] The Euripus of funds and actions. Burke.

A shareholder in joint-stock company. [Obs.]

g of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand. I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances. Jay. The account was made up with intent to show what advances had…

ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor.