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A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.

A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings). [Obs.] With a linen stock on one leg. Shak.

An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under-garments, etc., are made.

sion of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem. The faith they have in tennis, and tall stockings, Short blistered breeches, and those types of travel. Shak.

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

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

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.

in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.