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A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven. Blue stocking. See Bluestocking. -- Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other hosiery goods.

A stocking weaver.

A literary lady; a female pedant. [Colloq.]

The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry. [Colloq.]

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.

Destitute of stockings. Sir W. Scott.

With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.

A bluestocking; a literary woman. [Somewhat derisive]

Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking. [Colloq.] The ladies were very blue and well informed. Thackeray. Blue asbestus. See Crocidolite. -- Blue black, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost black. -- Blue blood. See under Blood. -- Blue buck (Zoöl.), a small South African antelope…

Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. Shak.

A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking. Swift.

. -- Darning needle. (a) A long, strong needle for mending holes or rents, especially in stockings. (b) (Zoöl.) Any species of dragon fly, having a long, cylindrical body, resembling a needle. These flies are harmless and without stings.

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

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.]

of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking.

applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc.

A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.

h. -- Half hitch, a sailor's knot in a rope; half of a clove hitch. -- Half hose, short stockings; socks. -- Half measure, an imperfect or weak line of action. -- Half note (Mus.), a minim, one half of a semibreve. -- Half pay, half of the wages or salary; reduced pay; as, an officer on half pay. -- Half price, h…

n at the heel, to be slovenly or in a poor plight. -- To be out at the heels, to have on stockings that are worn out; hence, to be shabby, or in a poor plight. Shak. -- To cool the heels. See under Cool. -- To go heels over head, to turn over so as to bring the heels uppermost; hence, to move in a inconsiderate, or…