premise: to <mask> in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock
hypothesis: the best context for <mask> here is To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; but not To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate.