STOCK Copy link • STOCK 1. s. The trunk or body of a plant, truncus: arboris corpus: stirps (☞ not caudex or stipes). Stock still, immotus; immobilis: to be standing stock still, tamquam in incili aliquo adhaerere (proverbially, caelius, ap. Cic.); immotum stare. A race, lineage, Vid: Great quantity, vis: copia: magnus numerus. Store, copia: apparatus. A large stock, vis magna, maxima: to lay in a large stock of corn, frumenti vim maximam comparare. Capital, sors: caput. (In ship building) Stocks, plur.; navalia, -ium, plur. To put a ship upon the stocks, navem aedificare or exstruere (in navalibus): to take a ship off the stocks, navem deducere: a ship leaves the stocks, navis exit navalibus. Plural, Stocks, hold for the legs, compedes, plur. If = funds, Vid. 2. v. suppeditare alicui aliquid: instruere: exstruere (rare): ornare. (The words are found in this connection and order.) instruere et ornare aliquem aliqua re. Stocked, instructus: ornatus.