13. [Cf. Stocking.] 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.
14. A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk
stock.
15. pl. A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet
and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.
He shall rest in my stocks.
Piers Plowman.
16. pl. (Shipbuilding) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while
building.
17. pl. Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the
front of buildings. [Eng.]
18. (Bot.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common
stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M.
annua).
19. (Geol.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a
rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.