dock 
lowered on the same principle. A floating dock may also 
be made so heavy as to sink by its own weight deep enough 
to receive the largest vessel, and he raised by means of 
empty water tight tanks, which lift dock and ship by their 
buoyancy. Graving-dock, a dry-dock : so called because 
used in graving or cleaning the bottom of ships. The grav- 
ing-docks in the navy-yards of Brooklyn. Boston, and Nor- 
folk are important examples. Half-tide dock, a basin 
connecting two or more docks, and communicating with 
the entrance-basin. Sectional dock, a floating dock 
composed of a succession of pontoons or caissons attached 
to a platform below the vessel. Steam-pumps are used to 
remove the water from the caissons, and, as they float, the 
vessel is raised. 
dock 3 (dok), v. t. [= D. Flem. dokken = Dan. 
dokke, dock; from the noun.] To bring or draw 
into or place in a dock. 
It floweth 18. foot, that you may make, dock, or carine 
ships with much facilitie. 
Quoted in Cai>l. John Smith's True Travels, I. 111. 
dock 4 (dok), n. [Appar. 
docks c f. pFlem. docke, 
the same word as 
a cage.] The place 
where a criminal stands in court. 
Here will be officers, presently ; bethink you 
Of some course sodainely to scape the dock ; 
For thither you'll come else. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, v. 5. 
dockage 1 (dok'aj), . [< dock 2 + -age.'] Cur- 
tailment ; deduction, as of wages. 
There is no docking for accidental delays. ... I do not 
find in the time-book a single instance of dockage for any 
reason. Phila. Times, March 20, 1886. 
dockage 2 (dok'aj), . [< dock 3 + -age.~\ Pro- 
vision for the docking of vessels ; accommoda- 
tion in a dock ; the act of docking a vessel ; the 
charge for the use of a dock : as, the port has 
ample dockage; dockage, so much (in an ac- 
count). 
The plethora of "cities" and "city sites," whose pros- 
pects the vast dockage and trade territory of Chicago has 
superseded. Pop. Set. Mo., XXXII. 334. 
dockan, i. See docken. 
dock-block (dok'blok), M. A pulley-block se- 
cured to a dock, and used in loading and un- 
loading vessels. 
docked (dokt), p. a. [< ME. docked; pp. of 
dock' 2 , p.] Cut off short ; having the end or tail 
cut off; specifically, in entom., cut off sharply 
in any direction, as if with a knife ; truncated, 
as a tip or apex. 
docken, dockan (dok'en, -an), i. [Dial. var. 
of dock 1 .] The dock, a plant of the genus 
Rnmex. [Scotch and North. Eng.] 
Wad ye compare yer sell to me, 
A docket! till a tansie? 
Ritiorix Scottish Songs, I. 182. 
docker (dok'er), .. [< dock 2 , v. t., + -erX] A 
stamp used to cut and perforate the dough for 
crackers or sea-biscuit. 
docket (dok'et), M. [Formerly sometimes spell- 
ed docquet (as if of r, origin), and with altered 
form doggct; < late ME. docket; appar. < dock, 
r., + dim. -et (less prob. < ME. docket, var. of 
docked, pp. of dock, v., and thus lit. 'a thing 
cut short,' 'an abridgment').] 1. In general, a 
summarized statement ; an abridgment or ab- 
stract ; a brief. 
On the outer edge of these tablets a docket is occasion- 
ally inscribed in alphabetic characters, containing a brief 
reference to the contents, evidently for the purpose of en- 
abling the keeper of the records to find any particular 
document in the archives where they were piled up. 
Imac Taylor, The Alphabet, I. 2f>3. 
2. In Jaw: (a) A summary of a larger writing; 
a paper or parchment, or a marginal space, 
containing the heads of a writing; a digest. 
(6) A register of judgments, more specifically 
of money judgments. Thus, a judgment for the fore- 
closure of a mortgage and sale of the property is not dock- 
eted in this sense ; but if after sale there remains a deficien- 
cy for which a defendant is personally liable, the judgment 
for the deficiency is docketed against him, thus being made 
a lien on his real property in the county or district, (<;) A 
list of causes in court for trial or hearing, or of 
the names of the parties who have causes pend- 
ing, usually made in the order in which the 
causesaretpbecalled. (d!) In England, the copy 
of a decree in chancery, left with the record and 
writ clerk, preparatory to enrolment. 3. A 
bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as 
the name of the owner or the place to which 
they are to be sent ; also, a ticket attached to 
goods, specifying their measurement. See tick- 
et. 4. A shred or piece. [Prov. Eng.] 5. 
A woodman's bill. [Prov. Eng.] _ TO strike a 
docket, in Eng. law, to give a bond to the lord chancellor 
engaging to prove the debtor to be a bankrupt, whereupon 
a fiat of bankruptcy is issued against the debtor : said of a 
creditor. 
docket (dok'et), v. t. [< docket, .] 1 . In law : 
(a) To make an abstract or summary of the 
heads of, as a document ; abstract and enter in 
a book: as, judgments regularly docketed. (6) 
1714 
To make a judgment a lien on lands. 2. To 
enter in a docket; write a brief of the contents 
of, as on the back of a writing. 
They were all docketed and marked, and tied with red 
tape. Thackeray, Vanity Fair. 
3. To mark with a docket or ticket, 
docking (dok'ing), n. [Verbal n. of dock 2 , v. t."} 
1. A cutting or clipping, as of a horse's tail. 
2. The operation of cutting and piercing the 
dough for sea-biscuit. 
dockmackie (dok'mak-i), . A common name 
in the United States for the Viburnum aceri- 
foliitm, sometimes used as an application to 
tumors. 
dock-master (dok'mas"ter), n. One who has 
the superintendence of docks. 
dock-rent (dok'rent), n. Charge for storing 
and warehousing goods in a dock. 
dock-warrant (dok'wor"ant), n. In England, 
a certificate given to the owner of goods ware- 
housed in the docks ; a warehouse-receipt. When 
a transfer is made, the certificate is indorsed with an or- 
der to deliver the goods to the pui'chaser. The warrant 
thus becomes an authority for the removal of the goods. 
The holder of a dock -warrant, has a prima-facie claim 
to the pipes of wine, bales of wool, hogsheads of sugar, or 
other packages named thereon. 
Jevons, Money and Mech. of Exchange, p. 207. 
dockyard (dok'yiird), . A yard or magazine 
near a harbor, for containing all kinds of naval 
Stores and timber. Dockyards belonging to the gov- 
ernment (called in the Vnited States navy -yards) usually 
include dry -docks for repairing ships, and slips on which 
new vessels are built, besides the storehouses and work- 
shops. 
docmac (dok'mak), n. A siluroid fish of the 
genus Bagrus (B. docmac), inhabiting the Nile. 
It is a kind of catfish. 
The genus Bagrus, of which the Bayad (B. bayad) and 
Docinac (B. docmac) frequently come under the notice of 
travellers on the Nile, tiiiuther, Encyc. Brit., XXII. 68. 
Docoglossa (dok-o-glos'a), n. pi. [NL., < Gr. 
fioKoc, a bearing-beam, a beam, bar, + yAuaaa, 
tongue.] A group or order of dioecious gastro- 
pods, characterized by having transverse rows 
of beam-like teeth on the odontophore or lin- 
gual ribbon. Different limits have been assigned to it. 
() In Troschel's system it was made to include the lim- 
pet-like gastropods and the chitons, (b) In Gill's and later 
systems it is restricted to the limpet-like forms, as the 
families Patellitla 1 , Acm&idte, and Leitetidae. 
docoglossate (dok-6-glos'at), o. and n. [As Do- 
coglossa + -ate*.] 1. a. Pertaining to or having 
the characters of the Docoglossa; being one of 
the Patellidce or limpets. 
At any rate, it is certain that the old views of a close 
relation between the Polyplacophore and the docoglosxate 
Gastropoda had very little morphological basis. 
Science, IV. 33S. 
II. . A gastropod of the order Docoglossa. 
docquett, . and r. An obsolete form of docket. 
doctor (dok'tov), . [Early mod. E. also doc- 
tour; < MK. doctour, doctur, doctor, doktor, a 
doctor (of divinity, law, or medicine), < OP. 
doctour, doctur, P. docteur = Pr. Sp. doctor = 
Pg. doutor = It. dottore = D. G. doctor = Dan. 
Sw. doktor, < L. doctor, a teacher, ML. esp. in 
the university sense, < docere, teach : see docile .] 
1. A teacher; an instructor; a learned man; 
one skilled in a learned profession. 
But freres hauen forjetten this, . . . 
Wher [whether] Fraunceis or Domynik other Austen or- 
deynide 
Any of this dotardes doctur to worthe [become], 
Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 680. 
Then stood up one in the council, a Pharisee, named 
Gamaliel, a doctor of the law. Acts v. 84. 
The best and ablest doctors of Christendom have been 
actually deceived in matters of great concernment. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 877. 
Who shall decide, when doctors disagree, 
And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me ? 
Pope, Epistle to Lord Bathurst, 1. 1. 
2. In a university, one who has passed all the 
degrees of a faculty, and is thereby empowered 
to teach the subjects included in the faculty ; 
a person who has received the highest degree 
in a faculty : as, a doctor in divinity. The degree 
is also regularly conferred by certain technical schools, as 
those of medicine, and, under certain conditions, by col- 
leges. An honorary degree of doctor, as of divinity or 
laws, is often conferred by universities and colleges. The 
degree of doctor differs only in name from that of master. 
When there was but one degree in each faculty, the gradu- 
ate was called a matter ill Paris, a doctor in Bologna. The 
faculty of the decretals being modeled after that of Bo- 
logna, those who took the highest degree in law were call- 
ed doctors. This title was afterward extended to masters in 
theology, and finally to masters in medicine. The degrees 
of doctor conferred by universities, colleges, and profes- 
sional schools include doctor of divinity (L. iimnitntix 
doctor, abbreviated D. D. ; or sacros thrologiai doctor, ab- 
breviated S. T. D. ; or doctortheulogice, abbreviated D. T.); 
doctor of medicine, abbreviated D. St. (L. medicince doctor 
abbreviated M. D.); doctor of laws (L. leijmn doctor, ab- 
doctoral 
breviated LL.D.)\ doctor of cicil late, abbreviated D. C. L. 
(L. legis^ civili* doctor); dot-tor of both laws (civil and can- 
on) (L. juris utriusquc doctor, abbreviated J. IT. D.)', doc- 
tor of philosophy, abbreviated D. P. (L. philosophise doc- 
tar, abbreviated Ph. D.); doctor of science, (L. scientice 
doctor, abbreviated Sc. D.); doctor of nnisic, abbreviated 
D. M. (L. inusic(e doctor, abbreviated Stun. D.) the ab- 
brcviations of the Latin forms being more commonly used ; 
doctor of dental surgery, abbreviated D. D. S. ; doctor of 
veterinary surgery, abbreviated D. V. S. 
With us ther was a Doctour of Pliisik, 
In al this world ne was ther non him lik 
To speke of pliisik and of surgerye. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 411. 
And the noumbre of doctouresot C'yuyle and physyk was 
grete excedyngly. Sir R. fliiylfonte, Pylgrymage, p. 8. 
The doctor of the civil law hnd in prove his knowledge 
of the Digest and the Institutes. 
Stttbbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 311. 
Specifically 3. A person duly licensed to prac- 
tise medicine ; a physician ; one whose occu- 
pation is to cure diseases. [In the second and third 
senses much used as a title before the pel-son's name (and 
then often abbreviated Dr.), or alone, as a customary term 
of address: as, Doctor Martin Luther; Doctor Johnson ; 
Dr. Holmes; come in, doctor.] 
When ill, indeed, 
E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. 
Caiman the Younger, Lodgings for Single Gentlemen. 
4. A minor part of certain pieces of machinery 
employed in regulating the feed or in remov- 
ing surplus material ; specifically, the roller in 
a power printing-press which serves as a con- 
ductor of ink to the distributing rollers (see crab- 
r oiler, drop-rotter) : as, a color-rfocfor ; a clean- 
\ng-doctor; a lint-rfwtor, etc. [In some uses 
the word is probably a corruption of L. due- 
tor, leader.] 5. An auxiliary steam-engine; 
a donkey-engine. 6. In wine-making: (a) A 
liquor used to mix with inferior wine to make 
it more palatable, or to give it a resemblance 
to a better wine, (ft) A liquor used to darken 
the color of wine, as boiled must mixed with 
pale sherry to produce brown sherry. See 
sherry, mosto, and must. 7. A translation of 
a local name in North Africa of the bird Em- 
ber iza striolata. See the extract. 
The house-sparrow is not found ; between Morocco and 
Mogador its place is taken by a beautiful bird (Emberiza 
striolata), locally called tabib, or "the doctor." 
Encyc. Brit., XVI. 883. 
8. Same as doctor-fish. 9. pi. False or doc- 
tored dice. [Old slang.] 
Now, Sir, here is your true dice; a man seldom gets any- 
thing by them ; here is your false, Sir ; hey how they run ! 
Now, Sir, those we generally call doctors. 
Sirs. Centlivre, Gamester, i. 
Doctor Of philosophy, (a) In the German universities, 
a degree corresponding to master of arts. (6) In Borne 
American universities, a degree superior to that of mas- 
ter of arts. Abbreviated Ph. D. See above, 2. Doctors' 
Commons. See commons. 
doctor (dok'tor), r. [= ML. doctorare, make or 
become a doctor, confer the degree of doctor 
on; from the noun. See doctor, .] I. trans. 
1. To treat, as a doctor or physician ; treat me- 
dicinally; apply medicines for the cure of; ad- 
minister medicine or medical treatment to: as, 
to doctor a disease ; to doctor a patient. Hence 
2. To repair; mend; patch up. [Colloq.] 
3. To confer the degree of doctor upon. [Rare.] 
I am taking it into serious deliberation whether I shall 
or shall not be made a Doctor, and ... I begin to think 
that no man who deliberates is likely to be Doctored. 
Southey, Letters, III. 196. 
Albertns Mugnus was thirty-five years of age before he 
was doctored by the University of Paris in 1228. 
Laurie, Universities, p. 218. 
4. To disguise by mixture or manipulation; 
especially, to alter for the purpose of decep- 
tion ; give a false appearance to ; adulterate ; 
cook up; tamper with: as, to doctor wine or an 
account. [Colloq. or slang.] 
The Cross Keys . . . had doctored ale, an odour of bad 
tobacco, and remarkably strong cheese. 
Geori/e Eliot, Felix Holt, xxviii. 
The news all came through Northern channels, and was 
doctored by the government, which controlled the tele- 
graph. //. Greeleij, in New York Independent, June, 1862. 
II. intrans. 1. To practise physic. 2. To 
receive medical treatment ; take medicine : as, 
to doctor for ague. [Colloq.] 
doctoral (dok'to-ral), a. [Formerly also doctor- 
all ; =F. doctoral = STp- doctoral = Pg. doutoral 
= It. dottorale, < NL. 'doctornlis, < L. doctor, 
doctor: see doctor.] Relating or pertaining to 
tlie degree of doctor, or to the profession of a 
teacher or doctor. 
But Rabbi in Israel, and Tt;ib and Mm 1 in Babylon, be- 
gan to be Doctoral titles about that time. 
Purchax. Pilgrimage, p. 173. 
Magisterial or doctoral nuthority and truth. 
.Irr. Tail/or, Wnrks (ed. 1835). I. 311. 
The dignity with which he [Nicias] wears the doctoral 
fur renders his absurdities infinitely more grotesque. 
Macaulay, -Machiavelli. 
