8. (Bookkeeping) Same as Stock account, below.

9. Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or

manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions.

Add to that stock which justly we bestow.

Dryden.

10. (Agric.) Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on

a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live

stock.

11. (Card Playing) That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to

the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but

which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.

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