Stock, stok, n. a favourite garden-flower. [Orig. called stock-gillyflower, to distinguish it from the stemless clove-pink, called the gillyflower.]
Stockade, stok-ād′, n. a breastwork formed of stakes fixed in the ground.—v.t. to fortify with such. [Fr. estocade—estoc—Ger. stock, stick.]
Stockfish, stok′fish, n, a commercial name of salted and dried cod and other fish of the same family, esp. ling, hake, and torsk.
Stock-gillyflower, stok′-jil′i-flow-ėr, n. a genus of herbaceous or half-shrubby plants of the natural order Cruciferæ, having their flowers in racemes, and generally beautiful and fragrant. [Stock, wood, and gillyflower.]
Stocking, stok′ing, n. a close covering for the foot and lower leg.—ns. Stockinet′, an elastic knitted fabric for under-garments; Stock′inger, one who knits stockings; Stock′ing-frame, a knitting-machine. [From stock, the stockings being the nether-stocks when the long hose came to be cut at the knee.]
Stockish, stok′ish, adj. (Shak.) like a stock, stupid.—n. Stock′ishness, stupidity.—adj. Stock′-still, still as a stock or post.
Stock-tackle, stok′-tak′l, n. tackle used in hoisting an anchor on board ship to keep its stock clear of the ship's side.
Stock-taking, stok′-tāk′ing, n. a periodical inventory made of the stock or goods in a shop or warehouse.
Stocky, stok′i, adj. short and stout, thick-set: having a strong stem.—adv. Stock′ily.
Stodgy, stoj′i, adj. heavy, lumpy: ill put together: indigestible.—v.t. Stodge, to stuff, cram.—n. Stodg′iness.