subs. phr. (old).—A horse with two women riding sidewise.

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  Adj. (colloquial).—Very; completely: usually in combination: thus STOCK-STILL = entirely at rest; STOCK-BLIND = absolutely sightless, &c.: cf. STONE.

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  1675.  WYCHERLEY, The Country Wife, ii. 1. True lovers are blind, STOCK-BLIND.

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  1759.  STERNE, Tristram Shandy, i. 22. If he begins a digression from that moment, I observe, his whole work stands STOCK-STILL.

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  1809.  MALKIN, Gil Blas [ROUTLEDGE], 91. I stood STOCK-STILL in the street, not a little stiffened at this vision.

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