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Live stock, live-stock. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1903, rev. 2024. Live stock, live-stock 1.  Domestic animals generally; animals of any kind kept or dealt in for use or profit.

1 1777.  Sheridan, Sch. Scand., III. iii. Nothing but live stock—and that’s only a few pointers and ponies.

2 1777.  Robertson, Hist. Amer. (1783), III. 420. The number of its live-stock is more than treble.

3 1828.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. III. 264. Trying the great market of Covent-garden for the sale of his live-stock.

4 1840.  R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xxix. 105. Our live stock, consisting of four bullocks, a dozen sheep, a dozen or more pigs.

5 1863.  Fawcett, Pol. Econ., II. v. (1876), 159. Farmers may also now insure their live-stock.

6   transf.  1775.  Sheridan, Rivals, II. i. You talked of independence and a fortune, but not a word of a wife. Sir A. … Odds life, sir! if you have the estate, you must take it with the live stock on it, as it stands.

7 1894.  W. Morris, in Mackail, Life (1899), II. 305. Our suffering the human live-stock of the country to live such a wretched scanty existence as they do.

8   attrib.  1856.  Farmer’s Mag., Jan., 7/1. The Council have … agreed to the Live-Stock Prize-Sheet.

9 1894.  Daily News, 4 July, 5/7. The live-stock trade.

10   2.  Body vermin. dial. and slang.

11 1785.  Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Live stock, lice, or fleas.

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