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   Stock , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stocked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stocking.]
   To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.
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   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.
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   To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.
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   To put in the stocks. [R.]
   Shak.
   
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   To stock an anchor (Naut.), to fit it with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place. -- To stock cards (Card Playing), to arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; -- also called to stack the deck. [Cant] -- To stock down (Agric.), to sow, as plowed land, with grass seed, in order that it may become swarded, and produce grass. -- To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.
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   Stocking , n. [From Stock, which was formerly used of a covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches, or upper stocks, and stockings, or nether stocks.]
   A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven.
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   Any of various things resembling, or likened to, a stocking{1}; as: (a) A broad ring of color, differing from the general color, on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped; esp., a white ring between the coronet and the hock or knee of a dark-colored horse. (b) A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.
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   Blue stocking. See Bluestocking. -- Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other hosiery goods.
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   Stocking, v. t. To dress in GBs.
   Dryden.
   
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