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stocking
(encz) | stocking,punčocha |
stocking
(encz) | stocking,skladování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Stocking
(gcide) | Stock \Stock\ (st[o^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stocked
(st[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Stocking.]
1. To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as
merchandise, and the like.
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2. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to
supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with
goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle
and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a
permanent growth, especially of grass.
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3. To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more
previous to sale, as cows.
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4. To put in the stocks. [R.] --Shak.
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To stock an anchor (Naut.), to fit it with a stock, or to
fasten the stock firmly in place.
To stock cards (Card Playing), to arrange cards in a
certain manner for cheating purposes; -- also called {to
stack the deck}. [Cant]
To stock down (Agric.), to sow, as plowed land, with grass
seed, in order that it may become swarded, and produce
grass.
To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.
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Stocking
(gcide) | Stocking \Stock"ing\, v. t.
To dress in GBs. --Dryden.
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Stocking
(gcide) | Stocking \Stock"ing\, n. [From Stock, which was formerly used
of a covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches, or
upper stocks, and stockings, or nether stocks.]
1. A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually
knit or woven.
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2. Any of various things resembling, or likened to, a
stocking[1]; as:
(a) A broad ring of color, differing from the general
color, on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped;
esp., a white ring between the coronet and the hock or
knee of a dark-colored horse.
(b) A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually
converted by a special process into an incandescent
mantle for gas lighting.
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Blue stocking. See Bluestocking.
Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other
hosiery goods.
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stocking
(wn) | stocking
n 1: close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in
matched pairs (usually used in the plural)
2: the activity of supplying a stock of something; "he
supervised the stocking of the stream with trout" |
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bluestocking
(encz) | bluestocking,emancipovaná žena n: Zdeněk Brož |
nylon stocking
(encz) | nylon stocking, n: |
rayon stocking
(encz) | rayon stocking, n: |
restocking
(encz) | restocking, |
silk stocking
(encz) | silk stocking, n: |
stocking cap
(encz) | stocking cap,kulich n: Zdeněk Brož |
stocking filler
(encz) | stocking filler, n: |
stocking stuffer
(encz) | stocking stuffer, n: |
stockinged
(encz) | stockinged, adj: |
stockings
(encz) | stockings,punčochy n: |
support stocking
(encz) | support stocking, n: |
Blue stocking
(gcide) | Stocking \Stock"ing\, n. [From Stock, which was formerly used
of a covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches, or
upper stocks, and stockings, or nether stocks.]
1. A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually
knit or woven.
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2. Any of various things resembling, or likened to, a
stocking[1]; as:
(a) A broad ring of color, differing from the general
color, on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped;
esp., a white ring between the coronet and the hock or
knee of a dark-colored horse.
(b) A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually
converted by a special process into an incandescent
mantle for gas lighting.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Blue stocking. See Bluestocking.
Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other
hosiery goods.
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bluestocking
(gcide) | Blue \Blue\ (bl[=u]), a. [Compar. Bluer (bl[=u]"[~e]r);
superl. Bluest.] [OE. bla, blo, blew, blue, livid, black,
fr. Icel.bl[=a]r livid; akin to Dan. blaa blue, Sw. bl[*a],
D. blauw, OHG. bl[=a]o, G. blau; but influenced in form by F.
bleu, from OHG. bl[=a]o.]
1. Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it,
whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue
as a sapphire; blue violets. "The blue firmament."
--Milton.
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2. Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence,
of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence
of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air
was blue with oaths.
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3. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
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4. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as,
thongs looked blue. [Colloq.]
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5. Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour
religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals;
inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality;
as, blue laws.
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6. Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of
bluestocking. [Colloq.]
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The ladies were very blue and well informed.
--Thackeray.
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Blue asbestus. See Crocidolite.
Blue black, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost
black.
Blue blood. See under Blood.
Blue buck (Zool.), a small South African antelope
(Cephalophus pygm[ae]us); also applied to a larger
species ([AE]goceras leucoph[ae]us); the blaubok.
Blue cod (Zool.), the buffalo cod.
Blue crab (Zool.), the common edible crab of the Atlantic
coast of the United States (Callinectes hastatus).
Blue curls (Bot.), a common plant ({Trichostema
dichotomum}), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also
bastard pennyroyal.
Blue devils, apparitions supposed to be seen by persons
suffering with delirium tremens; hence, very low
spirits. "Can Gumbo shut the hall door upon blue devils,
or lay them all in a red sea of claret?" --Thackeray.
Blue gage. See under Gage, a plum.
Blue gum, an Australian myrtaceous tree ({Eucalyptus
globulus}), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in
tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as
a protection against malaria. The essential oil is
beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very
useful. See Eucalyptus.
Blue jack, Blue stone, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
Blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval
uniform.
Blue jaundice. See under Jaundice.
Blue laws, a name first used in the eighteenth century to
describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor
reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any
puritanical laws. [U. S.]
Blue light, a composition which burns with a brilliant blue
flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at
sea, and in military operations.
Blue mantle (Her.), one of the four pursuivants of the
English college of arms; -- so called from the color of
his official robes.
Blue mass, a preparation of mercury from which is formed
the blue pill. --McElrath.
Blue mold or Blue mould, the blue fungus ({Aspergillus
glaucus}) which grows on cheese. --Brande & C.
Blue Monday,
(a) a Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or itself
given to dissipation (as the Monday before Lent).
(b) a Monday considered as depressing because it is a
workday in contrast to the relaxation of the weekend.
Blue ointment (Med.), mercurial ointment.
Blue Peter (British Marine), a blue flag with a white
square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to
recall boats, etc. It is a corruption of blue repeater,
one of the British signal flags.
Blue pill. (Med.)
(a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc.
(b) Blue mass.
Blue ribbon.
(a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter;
-- hence, a member of that order.
(b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great
ambition; a distinction; a prize. "These
[scholarships] were the --blue ribbon of the college."
--Farrar.
(c) The distinctive badge of certain temperance or total
abstinence organizations, as of the --Blue ribbon
Army.
Blue ruin, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] --Carlyle.
Blue spar (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See Lazulite.
Blue thrush (Zool.), a European and Asiatic thrush
(Petrocossyphus cyaneas).
Blue verditer. See Verditer.
Blue vitriol (Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue
crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico
printing, etc.
Blue water, the open ocean.
Big Blue, the International Business Machines corporation.
[Wall Street slang.] PJC
To look blue, to look disheartened or dejected.
True blue, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed;
not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising
Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the
Covenanters.
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For his religion . . .
'T was Presbyterian, true blue. --Hudibras.
[1913 Webster]Bluestocking \Blue"stock`ing\, n.
1. A literary lady; a female pedant. [Colloq.]
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Note: As explained in Boswell's "Life of Dr. Johnson", this
term is derived from the name given to certain meetings
held by ladies, in Johnson's time, for conversation
with distinguished literary men. An eminent attendant
of these assemblies was a Mr. Stillingfleet, who always
wore blue stockings. He was so much distinguished for
his conversational powers that his absence at any time
was felt to be a great loss, so that the remark became
common, "We can do nothing without the blue stockings."
Hence these meetings were sportively called
bluestocking clubs, and the ladies who attended them,
bluestockings.
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2. (Zool.) The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).
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Bluestocking
(gcide) | Blue \Blue\ (bl[=u]), a. [Compar. Bluer (bl[=u]"[~e]r);
superl. Bluest.] [OE. bla, blo, blew, blue, livid, black,
fr. Icel.bl[=a]r livid; akin to Dan. blaa blue, Sw. bl[*a],
D. blauw, OHG. bl[=a]o, G. blau; but influenced in form by F.
bleu, from OHG. bl[=a]o.]
1. Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it,
whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue
as a sapphire; blue violets. "The blue firmament."
--Milton.
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2. Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence,
of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence
of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air
was blue with oaths.
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3. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
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4. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as,
thongs looked blue. [Colloq.]
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5. Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour
religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals;
inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality;
as, blue laws.
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6. Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of
bluestocking. [Colloq.]
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The ladies were very blue and well informed.
--Thackeray.
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Blue asbestus. See Crocidolite.
Blue black, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost
black.
Blue blood. See under Blood.
Blue buck (Zool.), a small South African antelope
(Cephalophus pygm[ae]us); also applied to a larger
species ([AE]goceras leucoph[ae]us); the blaubok.
Blue cod (Zool.), the buffalo cod.
Blue crab (Zool.), the common edible crab of the Atlantic
coast of the United States (Callinectes hastatus).
Blue curls (Bot.), a common plant ({Trichostema
dichotomum}), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also
bastard pennyroyal.
Blue devils, apparitions supposed to be seen by persons
suffering with delirium tremens; hence, very low
spirits. "Can Gumbo shut the hall door upon blue devils,
or lay them all in a red sea of claret?" --Thackeray.
Blue gage. See under Gage, a plum.
Blue gum, an Australian myrtaceous tree ({Eucalyptus
globulus}), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in
tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as
a protection against malaria. The essential oil is
beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very
useful. See Eucalyptus.
Blue jack, Blue stone, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
Blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval
uniform.
Blue jaundice. See under Jaundice.
Blue laws, a name first used in the eighteenth century to
describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor
reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any
puritanical laws. [U. S.]
Blue light, a composition which burns with a brilliant blue
flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at
sea, and in military operations.
Blue mantle (Her.), one of the four pursuivants of the
English college of arms; -- so called from the color of
his official robes.
Blue mass, a preparation of mercury from which is formed
the blue pill. --McElrath.
Blue mold or Blue mould, the blue fungus ({Aspergillus
glaucus}) which grows on cheese. --Brande & C.
Blue Monday,
(a) a Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or itself
given to dissipation (as the Monday before Lent).
(b) a Monday considered as depressing because it is a
workday in contrast to the relaxation of the weekend.
Blue ointment (Med.), mercurial ointment.
Blue Peter (British Marine), a blue flag with a white
square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to
recall boats, etc. It is a corruption of blue repeater,
one of the British signal flags.
Blue pill. (Med.)
(a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc.
(b) Blue mass.
Blue ribbon.
(a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter;
-- hence, a member of that order.
(b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great
ambition; a distinction; a prize. "These
[scholarships] were the --blue ribbon of the college."
--Farrar.
(c) The distinctive badge of certain temperance or total
abstinence organizations, as of the --Blue ribbon
Army.
Blue ruin, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] --Carlyle.
Blue spar (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See Lazulite.
Blue thrush (Zool.), a European and Asiatic thrush
(Petrocossyphus cyaneas).
Blue verditer. See Verditer.
Blue vitriol (Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue
crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico
printing, etc.
Blue water, the open ocean.
Big Blue, the International Business Machines corporation.
[Wall Street slang.] PJC
To look blue, to look disheartened or dejected.
True blue, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed;
not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising
Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the
Covenanters.
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For his religion . . .
'T was Presbyterian, true blue. --Hudibras.
[1913 Webster]Bluestocking \Blue"stock`ing\, n.
1. A literary lady; a female pedant. [Colloq.]
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Note: As explained in Boswell's "Life of Dr. Johnson", this
term is derived from the name given to certain meetings
held by ladies, in Johnson's time, for conversation
with distinguished literary men. An eminent attendant
of these assemblies was a Mr. Stillingfleet, who always
wore blue stockings. He was so much distinguished for
his conversational powers that his absence at any time
was felt to be a great loss, so that the remark became
common, "We can do nothing without the blue stockings."
Hence these meetings were sportively called
bluestocking clubs, and the ladies who attended them,
bluestockings.
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2. (Zool.) The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).
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Bluestockingism
(gcide) | Bluestockingism \Blue"stock`ing*ism\, n.
The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
[Colloq.]
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Laced stocking
(gcide) | Laced \Laced\, a.
1. Fastened with a lace or laces; decorated with narrow
strips or braid. See Lace, v. t.
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2. Decorated with the fabric lace.
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A shirt with laced ruffles. --Fielding.
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Laced mutton, a prostitute. [Old slang]
Laced stocking, a strong stocking which can be tightly
laced; -- used in cases of weak legs, varicose veins, etc.
--Dunglison.
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Overstocking
(gcide) | Overstock \O`ver*stock"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overstocked; p.
pr. & vb. n. Overstocking.]
To fill too full; to supply in excess; as, to overstock a
market with goods, or a farm with cattle.
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Silk-stocking
(gcide) | Silk-stocking \Silk"-stock`ing\, a.
Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn
chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic); hence, elegantly
dressed; aristocratic; luxurious; -- chiefly applied to men,
often by way of reproach.
[They] will find their levees crowded with
silk-stocking gentry, but no yeomanry; an army of
officers without soldiers. --Jefferson.
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Stocking
(gcide) | Stock \Stock\ (st[o^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stocked
(st[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Stocking.]
1. To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as
merchandise, and the like.
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2. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to
supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with
goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle
and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a
permanent growth, especially of grass.
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3. To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more
previous to sale, as cows.
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4. To put in the stocks. [R.] --Shak.
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To stock an anchor (Naut.), to fit it with a stock, or to
fasten the stock firmly in place.
To stock cards (Card Playing), to arrange cards in a
certain manner for cheating purposes; -- also called {to
stack the deck}. [Cant]
To stock down (Agric.), to sow, as plowed land, with grass
seed, in order that it may become swarded, and produce
grass.
To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.
[1913 Webster]Stocking \Stock"ing\, v. t.
To dress in GBs. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]Stocking \Stock"ing\, n. [From Stock, which was formerly used
of a covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches, or
upper stocks, and stockings, or nether stocks.]
1. A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually
knit or woven.
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2. Any of various things resembling, or likened to, a
stocking[1]; as:
(a) A broad ring of color, differing from the general
color, on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped;
esp., a white ring between the coronet and the hock or
knee of a dark-colored horse.
(b) A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually
converted by a special process into an incandescent
mantle for gas lighting.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Blue stocking. See Bluestocking.
Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other
hosiery goods.
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Stocking frame
(gcide) | Stocking \Stock"ing\, n. [From Stock, which was formerly used
of a covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches, or
upper stocks, and stockings, or nether stocks.]
1. A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually
knit or woven.
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2. Any of various things resembling, or likened to, a
stocking[1]; as:
(a) A broad ring of color, differing from the general
color, on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped;
esp., a white ring between the coronet and the hock or
knee of a dark-colored horse.
(b) A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually
converted by a special process into an incandescent
mantle for gas lighting.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Blue stocking. See Bluestocking.
Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other
hosiery goods.
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Stockinger
(gcide) | Stockinger \Stock"ing*er\, n.
A stocking weaver.
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Unstockinged
(gcide) | Unstockinged \Un*stock"inged\, a.
1. [Pref. un- not + stocking.] Destitute of stockings. --Sir
W. Scott.
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2. [1st pref. un- + stocking.] Deprived of stockings.
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bluestocking
(wn) | bluestocking
n 1: a woman having literary or intellectual interests [syn:
bluestocking, bas bleu] |
body stocking
(wn) | body stocking
n 1: a one-piece tight-fitting undergarment for women that
covers the torso (and may have sleeves and legs) |
christmas stocking
(wn) | Christmas stocking
n 1: a stocking that is filled with small Christmas presents |
nylon stocking
(wn) | nylon stocking
n 1: women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or
rayon or silk) [syn: nylons, nylon stocking, rayons,
rayon stocking, silk stocking] |
rayon stocking
(wn) | rayon stocking
n 1: women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or
rayon or silk) [syn: nylons, nylon stocking, rayons,
rayon stocking, silk stocking] |
silk stocking
(wn) | silk stocking
n 1: women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or
rayon or silk) [syn: nylons, nylon stocking, rayons,
rayon stocking, silk stocking] |
stocking cap
(wn) | stocking cap
n 1: a close-fitting woolen cap; often has a tapering tail with
a tassel [syn: ski cap, stocking cap, toboggan cap] |
stocking filler
(wn) | stocking filler
n 1: a small Christmas present included in the Christmas
stocking [syn: stocking filler, stocking stuffer] |
stocking stuffer
(wn) | stocking stuffer
n 1: a small Christmas present included in the Christmas
stocking [syn: stocking filler, stocking stuffer] |
stockinged
(wn) | stockinged
adj 1: wearing stockings; "walks about in his stockinged feet" |
support stocking
(wn) | support stocking
n 1: elasticized stocking intended to reduce pressure on the
veins of the leg (as in case of varicose veins) [syn:
support hose, support stocking] |
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