Word Meanings - UNDERSTOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To supply insufficiently with stock. A. Smith.

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• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• STOCKER
  One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• STOCKWORK
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• STOCK-BLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• SMITHSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n.
• STOCKADE
  A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other to form a barrier, or defensive fortification. 2. An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes. (more info) with estocade; see 1st Stoccado); fr. It. steccata
• STOCKY
  1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent. Addison. Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems. Mrs. H. H. Jackson. 2. Headstrong. G. Eliot.
• STOCK-STILL
  Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still. His whole work stands stock-still. Sterne.
• STOCKJOBBER
  One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.
• SUPPLYANT
  Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. Shak.
• SMITHSONITE
  Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine.
• STOCKINET
  An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under-garments, etc., are made.
• SMITHER
  Fragments; atoms; finders. Smash the bottle to smithers. Tennyson. (more info) 1. Light, fine rain. 2. pl.
• SMITH
  Icel. smi, Dan. & Sw. smed, Goth. smi ; cf. Gr. 1. One who forgess with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like. Piers Plowman. Nor yet the smith hath learned to form a sword. Tate. 2. One who
• STOCKISH
  Like a stock; stupid; blockish. Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. Shak.
• STOCKFISH
  Young fresh cod. (more info) 1. Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.
• STOCKHOLDER
  One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.
• SMITHCRAFT
  The art or occupation of a smith; smithing. Sir W. Raleigh.
• BEETLESTOCK
  The handle of a beetle.
• BLUESTOCKINGISM
  The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
• UNDERSTOCK
  To supply insufficiently with stock. A. Smith.
• DIESTOCK
  A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.
• MOCKINGSTOCK
  A butt of sport; an object of derision.
• RESUPPLY
  To supply again.
• TREASURY STOCK
  Issued stock of an incorporated company held by the company itself.
• ROOTSTOCK
  A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s