stocking

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A close-fitting, usually knitted covering for the foot and leg made from nylon, silk, cotton, wool, and similar yarns.
2. n. An item resembling this covering.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A close-fitting covering for the foot and lower leg. Stockings were originally made of cloth or milled stuff, sewed together, but they are now usually knitted by the hand or woven in a frame, the material being wool, cotton, or silk.
2. n. Something like or suggesting such a covering. The lower part of the leg of a quadruped when of a different color from the rest: as, a horse or cow with white stockings. See cut under gayal.
3. To dress in stockings; cover as with stockings.

Wiktionary

1. n. A soft garment worn on the foot and lower leg, usually knit or woven, worn under shoes or other footwear.
2. v. present participle of stock.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven.
2. n. Any of various things resembling, or likened to, a stocking{1}
3. n. A broad ring of color, differing from the general color, on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped; esp., a white ring between the coronet and the hock or knee of a dark-colored horse.
4. n. A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.
5. v. To dress in GBs.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the activity of supplying a stock of something
2. n. close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)