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— Stock account (Bookkeeping), an account on a merchant's ledger, one side of which shows the
original capital, or stock, and the additions thereto by accumulation or contribution, the other side showing
the amounts withdrawn. — Stock car, a railway car for carrying cattle. — Stock company (Com.),
an incorporated company the capital of which is represented by marketable shares having a certain
equal par value. — Stock duck (Zoöl.), the mallard. — Stock exchange. (a) The building or place
where stocks are bought and sold; stock market; hence, transactions of all kinds in stocks. (b) An association
or body of stockbrokers who meet and transact business by certain recognized forms, regulations, and
usages. Wharton. Brande & C. — Stock farmer, a farmer who makes it his business to rear live
stock. — Stock gillyflower (Bot.), the common stock. See Stock, n., 18. — Stock gold, gold laid
up so as to form a stock, or hoard. — Stock in trade, the goods kept for sale by a shopkeeper; the
fittings and appliances of a workman. Simmonds. — Stock list, a list of stocks, or shares, dealt in,
of transactions, and of prices. — Stock lock, a lock inclosed in a wooden case and attached to the
face of a door. — Stock market. (a) A place where stocks are bought and sold; the stock exchange.
(b) A market for live stock. — Stock pigeon. (Zoöl.) Same as Stockdove. — Stock purse. (a) A
common purse, as distinguished from a private purse. (b) (Mil.) Moneys saved out of the expenses
of a company or regiment, and applied to objects of common interest. [Eng.] — Stock shave, a tool
used by blockmakers. — Stock station, a place or district for rearing stock. [Australia] W. Howitt. —
Stock tackle (Naut.), a tackle used when the anchor is hoisted and secured, to keep its stock clear of
the ship's sides. Totten. — Stock taking, an examination and inventory made of goods or stock in a
shop or warehouse; — usually made periodically. — Tail stock. See Tailstock. — To have something
on the stock, to be at work at something. — To take stock, to take account of stock; to make an
inventory of stock or goods on hand. Dickens. — To take stock in. (a) To subscribe for, or purchase,
shares in a stock company. (b) To put faith in; to accept as trustworthy; as, to take stock in a person's
fidelity. [Slang] — To take stock of, to take account of the stock of; to take an inventory of; hence, to
ascertain the facts in regard to [Eng.]
At the outset of any inquiry it is proper to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the
same field. Leslie Stephen. Syn. — Fund; capital; store; supply; accumulation; hoard; provision.
Stock
(Stock) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stocked (stokt); p. pr. & vb. n. Stocking.]
1. To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.
2. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it
with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it
with a permanent growth, especially of grass.
3. To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.
4. To put in the stocks. [R.] Shak.
To stock an anchor (Naut.), to fit it with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place. — To stock
cards (Card Playing), to arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes. [Cant] — To stock
down (Agric.), to sow, as plowed land, with grass seed, in order that it may become swarded, and
produce grass. — To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.
Stock
(Stock), a. Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a
stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon. "A stock
charge against Raleigh." C. Kingsley.
Stock company (Theater), a company of actors regularly employed at one theater, or permanently
acting together in various plays under one management.
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