Noun

A store or supply

# (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.

We have a stock of televisions on hand.

# A supply of anything ready for use.

Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.

# Railroad rolling stock.

# In a card game, a stack of undealt cards made available to the players.

# Farm or ranch animals; livestock.

# The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.

(finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.

# The price or value of the stock for a company on the stock market

When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.

# (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.

After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.

# Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.

The raw material from which things are made; feedstock

# The type of paper used in printing.

The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.

# Undeveloped film; film stock

Stock theater, summer stock theater

The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.

* Bible, Job xiv. 8,9

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

# (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is .

#* Francis Bacon

The scion overruleth the stock quite.

# lineage, family, ancestry

## (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.

Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola .

A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached

# The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.

#*

# The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.

Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.

# The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.

# The tailstock of a lathe

A bar, stick or rod

# A ski pole

# (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.

# (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.

# (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)

A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle

(folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.

(uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.

A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.

* 1915 , :

He wore a brown tweed suit and a white stock . His clothes hung loosely about him as though they had been made for a much larger man. He looked like a respectable farmer of the middle of the nineteenth century.

* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 417:

His grey waistcoat sported pearl buttons, and he wore a stock which set off to admiration a lean and aquiline face which was almost as grey as the rest of him.

A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.

(obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking

A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

* Milton

All our fathers worshipped stocks and stones.

* Fuller

Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick.

(by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.

* Shakespeare

Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks .

(UK, historical) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.

A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

(shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.

(UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.

(biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.

The beater of a fulling mill.

(Knight)

Noun

A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.

apple sauce'''; mint '''sauce

(UK, Australia) tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:

[meat] pie and [tomato] sauce

Alcohol, booze.

*

Maybe you should lay off the sauce .

(bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.

(art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

(internet slang) used when requesting the source of an image.

(dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.

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Vegetables.

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(obsolete, UK, US, dialect) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.

* Beverly

Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt.

(Forby)

(Bartlett)