Stock duck (Zo["o]l.), 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. --Wharton. Brande & C.

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. --Simmonds.

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. (Zo["o]l.) 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] --W. Howitt.

Stock tackle (Naut.), a tackle used when the anchor is hoisted and secured, to keep its stock clear of the ship's sides. --Totten.

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. --Dickens.

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. --Leslie Stephen.

Syn: Fund; capital; store; supply; accumulation; hoard; provision.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)