Sock

·noun A warm inner sole for a shoe.

II. Sock ·noun A Plowshare.

III. Sock ·noun A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.

IV. Sock ·add. ·vt To hurl, drive, or strike violently;

— often with it as an Object.

V. Sock ·noun The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, — used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.