Stock. “To STOCK cards” is to arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes.
Stock, “to take STOCK of one,” to scrutinize narrowly one whom you have reason to suspect, or one with whom you are likely to have business transactions; taken from the tradesmen’s term for the annual examination and valuation of their stock of goods.
Stockdollager, a heavy blow, a “finisher.” Italian, STOCCADO, a fencing term. Also (in a general sense), a disastrous event.—Americanism.
Stodge, to surfeit, gorge, or clog with food. Stodge is in some places bread and milk.
Stoll, to understand.—North Country Cant.
Stomach, to bear with, to be partial to. Mostly used in a negative character,—as, “I can’t STOMACH that.”
Stone-jug, a prison.
“In a box of the stone-jug I was born.”
Stook, a pocket-handkerchief. A STOOK-HAULER, or “buzzer,” is a thief who takes pocket-handkerchiefs.
Story, a falsehood,—the soft synonym for a lie, allowed in family circles and boarding-schools. A Puritanism that came into fashion with the tirade against romances, all novels and stories being considered as dangerous and false.