23. (Cookery) A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts
of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in
making soup, gravy, etc.
Bit stock. See Bitstock. -- Dead stock (Agric.), the implements of
husbandry, and produce stored up for use; -- in distinction from live
stock, or the domestic animals on the farm. See def. 10, above. -- Head
stock. See Headstock. -- Paper stock, rags and other material of which
paper is made. -- 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other side showing the amounts withdrawn.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 (something). [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 (stk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stocked (stkt); 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.