stock
1. The hides or skins in a tannery awaiting
processing, or in some stage of processing into
leather. 2. Paper pulp which has been beaten and
refined, treated with sizing, color, filler, etc.,
and which after dilution is ready for sheet or web
formation. 3. Paper, cloth, leather, etc., on hand
in inventory. 4. Paper or other materials to be
printed, especially paper for a particular
printing job. 5. All of the books, manuscripts,
etc., in a library. (17 , 42 , 74 , 363 )