Vocabulary : Dock-cress to Doctor

Dock-cress : Nipplewort.
Docked : of Dock
Docket : A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest. ;; A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label. ;; An abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court. ;; A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks. ;; A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly. ;; To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers. ;; To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed. ;; To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial. ;; To mark with a ticket; as, to docke
Docketed : of Docket
Docketing : of Docket
Docking : of Dock
Dockyard : A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.
Docoglossa : An order of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon.
Docquet : See Docket.
Doctor : A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. ;; An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only. ;; One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. ;; Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine. ;; The friar skate. ;; To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. ;; To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor. ;; To tamper with and arrange for one's own purp
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