Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STOCK, v.t.

1. To store; to supply; to fill; as, to stock the mind with ideas. Asia and Europe are well stocked with inhabitants.
2. To lay up in store; as, he stocks what he can not use. – Johnson.
3. To put in the stocks. [Little used.]
4. To pack; to put into a pack; as, to stock cards.
5. To supply with domestic animals; as, to stock a farm.
6. To supply with seed; as, to stock land with clover or herdsgrass. – American farmers.
7. To suffer cows to retain their milk for twenty four hours or more, previous to sale. To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up. – Edwards' W. Indies.