stock brush (stokbrush)

A brush in which the tufts are arranged on a flat wooden stock and barrel. See lock 1.-Long of stock. See long1. Net stock. See net2.- On or upon the stocks. See def. 13. Preference or preferred stock. See preference.- Rolling stock. See rolling - stock. - Stock-and bill tackle. Same as stock - tackle. - Stock and blockt, everything; both capital and interest. Before I came home I lost all, stock and block. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, p. 236. Stock and die, a screw-cutting die in its holder. - Stock certificate. (a) In the law of corporations , a certificate i ued by a corporation or joint-stock company to a shareholder, as evidence of his title to a specified number of shares of the capital stock. (b) In Eng . finance , a certificate i ued by or on behalf of the government, pursuant to the National Debt Act, 33 and 34 Vict., c. 71, to a holder of consols or of some other public indebtedne or annuities, as evidence of his title to such stock, with coupons annexed, entitling the bearer of the coupon to the corresponding dividend. A stock certificate is evidence of title to the stock, as distinguished from the stock it self, which is considered as an intangible right. - Stock company. (a) A commercial or other company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares, which are held or owned by individuals, generally with limited liability, as distinguished from a partnership : as, a stock company for the manufacture of window-gla . (b) A company of actors and actre es employed more or le permanently under the same management, and usually connected with a central or home theater. - Stock divi dend. See dividend. - Stock indicator. See indicator.- Stock in trade, the goods kept for sale by a shopkeeper; hence, a person's mental equipment or resources considered as qualifying him for a special service or or busine .- Stock of descent, in the law of inheritances, the person with whose ownership any given succe ion of inheritance is considered as commencing. At common law, in order to determine who was entitled to succeed as heir, the inquiry was for the heir of the person last actually IMG:content-2163.png:[blocks in formation] The Scotsman. About two months ago broad blanks were to be seen on many oat fields, and, though they were stocked a little, the crop is yet far too thin. 2. To send out sprouts, as from a stem which has been cut over: said of a tree or plant. 3. To make a certain profit on stock. See stock1, n., 30. [New Eng.] stock2+ (stok), n. [OF. estoc = It. stocco, a rapier: see stock1, and cf. estoc, tuck2.] 1. Same as estoc; also, a thrusting-sword used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, superseding the cut-and-thrust sword of earlier times. - 2. Same as stoccade, 1. stock2+ (stok), v. t. [ Oh, the brave age is gone! in my young days A chevalier would stock a needle's point Three times together. Fletcher (and another ), Love's Cure, iii. 4. tion. To accept stock, in early feudal customs, the act