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noun Stock n. 1.The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk. "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." 2.The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted. "The scion overruleth the stock quite." 3.A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post. "All our fathers worshiped stocks and stones." "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." 4.Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense. "Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks." 5.The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached. Specifically: (a)The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a rifle or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage. (b)The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace. (c)(Joinery) The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock. (d)(Naut.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. (e)The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself. (f)A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock. (g)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. See Counterfoil. (Eng.) 6.The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family. "And stand betwixt them made, when, severally, All told their stock." "Thy mother was no goddess, nor thy stock From Dardanus." 7.(Finance) Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former shares. 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." 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. "I must buy the stock; send me good cardings." 12.A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado. (Obs.) 13.A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings). (Obs.) "With a linen stock on one leg." 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." 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 (Matthiola annua). 19.(Geol.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone. 20.A race or variety in a species. 21.(Biol.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc. 22.The beater of a fulling mill. 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. 24.Raw material; that out of which something is manufactured; as, paper stock. 25.(Soap Making) A plain soap which is made into toilet soap by adding perfumery, coloring matter, etc. 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 (Zool.), 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. 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. 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. (Zool.) 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) Stock tackle (Naut.), a tackle used when the anchor is hoisted and secured, to keep its stock clear of the ship's sides. 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. 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." Synonyms: Fund; capital; store; supply; accumulation; hoard; provision.
verb Take v. t. (past took; past part. taken; pres. part. taking) 1.In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey. Hence, specifically: (a)To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take an army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; said of a disease, misfortune, or the like. "This man was taken of the Jews." "Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak." "They that come abroad after these showers are commonly taken with sickness." "There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle And makes milch kine yield blood." (b)To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm. "Neither let her take thee with her eyelids." "Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect, that he had no patience." "I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions." (c)To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right. "Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken." "The violence of storming is the course which God is forced to take for the destroying... of sinners." (d)To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat; it takes five hours to get to Boston from New York by car. "This man always takes time... before he passes his judgments." (e)To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take a picture of a person. "Beauty alone could beauty take so right." (f)To draw; to deduce; to derive. (R.) "The firm belief of a future judgment is the most forcible motive to a good life, because taken from this consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery." (g)To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say. (h)To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church. (i)To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery; he took a dictionary with him. "He took me certain gold, I wot it well." (j)To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four. 2.In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically: (a)To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit. "Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer." "Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore." (b)To receive as something to be eaten or drunk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine. (c)Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence. (d)To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man. (e)To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies. "You take me right." "Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing else but the science love of God and our neighbor." "(He) took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in a disguise." "You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl." (f)To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with; used in general senses; as, to take a form or shape. "I take thee at thy word." "Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command;... Not take the mold." 3.To make a picture, photograph, or the like, of; as, to take a group or a scene. (Colloq.) 4.To give or deliver (a blow to); to strike; hit; as, he took me in the face; he took me a blow on the head. (Obs. exc. Slang or Dial.) To be taken aback, To take advantage of, To take air, etc. See under Aback, Advantage, etc. To take aim, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim. To take along, to carry, lead, or convey. To take arms, to commence war or hostilities. To take away, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes of bishops. "By your own law, I take your life away." To take breath, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self. To take care, to exercise care or vigilance; to be solicitous. "Doth God take care for oxen?" To take care of, to have the charge or care of; to care for; to superintend or oversee. To take down. (a)To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher, place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower; to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down pride, or the proud. "I never attempted to be impudent yet, that I was not taken down." (b)To swallow; as, to take down a potion. (c)To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold. (d)To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters them. To take effect, To take fire. See under Effect, and Fire. To take ground to the right or To take ground to the left (Mil.), to extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops, to the right or left. To take heart, to gain confidence or courage; to be encouraged. To take heed, to be careful or cautious. "Take heed what doom against yourself you give." To take heed to, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy ways. To take hold of, to seize; to fix on. To take horse, to mount and ride a horse. To take in. (b)To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend. (c)To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as, to take in sail. (d)To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive. (Colloq.) (e)To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in water. (f)To win by conquest. (Obs.) "For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take in." (g)To receive into the mind or understanding. "Some bright genius can take in a long train of propositions." (h)To receive regularly, as a periodical work or newspaper; to take. (Eng.) To take in hand. See under Hand. To take in vain, to employ or utter as in an oath. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." To take issue. See under Issue. To take leave. See Leave, n., 2. To take a newspaper, magazine, or the like, to receive it regularly, as on paying the price of subscription. To take notice, to observe, or to observe with particular attention. To take notice of. See under Notice. To take oath, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial manner. To take on, to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take on a character or responsibility. To take one's own course, to act one's pleasure; to pursue the measures of one's own choice. To take order for. See under Order. To take order with, to check; to hinder; to repress. (Obs.) To take orders. (a)To receive directions or commands. (b)(Eccl.) To enter some grade of the ministry. See Order, n., 10. To take out. (a)To remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct. (b)To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as, to take out a stain or spot from cloth. (c)To produce for one's self; as, to take out a patent. (d)To put an end to; as, to take the conceit out of a man. (e)To escort; as, to take out to dinner. To take over, to undertake; to take the management of. (Eng.) To take part, to share; as, they take part in our rejoicing. To take part with, to unite with; to join with. To take place, To take root, To take sides, To take stock, etc. See under Place, Root, Side, etc. To take the air. (a)(Falconry) To seek to escape by trying to rise higher than the falcon; said of a bird. To take the field. (Mil.) See under Field. To take thought, to be concerned or anxious; to be solicitous. To take to heart. See under Heart. To take to task, to reprove; to censure. To take up. (b)To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large amount; to take up money at the bank. (c)To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. (d)To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically (Surg.), to fasten with a ligature. (e)To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take up the time; to take up a great deal of room. (f)To take permanently. "Arnobius asserts that men of the finest parts... took up their rest in the Christian religion." (g)To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief; to take up vagabonds. (h)To admit; to believe; to receive. (Obs.) "The ancients took up experiments upon credit." (i)To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate. "One of his relations took him up roundly." (j)To begin where another left off; to keep up in continuous succession; to take up (a topic, an activity). "Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale." (k)To assume; to adopt as one's own; to carry on or manage; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors; to take up current opinions. "They take up our old trade of conquering." (l)To comprise; to include. "The noble poem of Palemon and Arcite... takes up seven years." (m)To receive, accept, or adopt for the purpose of assisting; to espouse the cause of; to favor. (n)To collect; to exact, as a tax; to levy; as, to take up a contribution. "Take up commodities upon our bills." (o)To pay and receive; as, to take up a note at the bank. (p)(Mach.) To remove, as by an adjustment of parts; as, to take up lost motion, as in a bearing; also, to make tight, as by winding, or drawing; as, to take up slack thread in sewing. (q)To make up; to compose; to settle; as, to take up a quarrel. (Obs.) (s) To accept from someone, as a wager or a challenge; as, J. took M. up on his challenge. To take up arms. Same as To take arms, above. To take upon one's self. (a)To assume; to undertake; as, he takes upon himself to assert that the fact is capable of proof. (b)To appropriate to one's self; to allow to be imputed to, or inflicted upon, one's self; as, to take upon one's self a punishment. To take up the gauntlet. See under Gauntlet.
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