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To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share. True justice unto people to divide. Spenser. Ye shall divide the land by lot. Num. xxxiii. 54.

or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural. As to the common people, their stock is in their persons and in their earnings. Burke.

from an original; a type of something that has previously existed. Some regarded him [Klopstock] as an ectype of the ancient prophets. Eng. Cyc. .

oot (Bot.) (a) A South African plant (Testudinaria Elephantipes), which has a massive rootstock covered with a kind of bark cracked with deep fissures; -- called also tortoise plant. The interior part is barely edible, whence the plant is also called Hottentot's bread. (b) A genus (Elephantopus) of coarse, composite we…

In Russia, a prison or stockade for the confinement of prisoners in transit.

The science of improving stock, whether human or animal. F. Galton.

nd China. The only species (E. ferox) is very prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food.

Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. "A family of ancient extraction." Clarendon.

rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points. I am a poor falle man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master. Shak. The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. Sir J. Davies.

Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.

ne), a clothed cylinder (usually having straight teeth) in front of the doffer. -- Fancy stocks, a species of stocks which afford great opportunity for stock gambling, since they have no intrinsic value, and the fluctuations in their prices are artificial. -- Fancy store, one where articles of fancy and ornament are…

r is heated, usually by exhaust steam. (b) A boiler or kettle in which is heated food for stock. -- Feed motion, or Feed gear (Mach.), the train of mechanism that gives motion to the part that directly produces the feed in a machine. -- Feed pipe, a pipe for supplying the boiler of a steam engine, etc., with water.…

A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker.

Kindred; stock; race. He is our brother and our flesh. Gen. xxxvii. 27.

To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on. [Scot.]

To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable

One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. [Cant, U.S.]

by fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident light. Stockes.

which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking.

A kind of stocking. [Obs.]