Dictionary: DOCK – DOC'TRIN-AL

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DOCK, n.2

  1. A broad deep trench on the side of a harbor, or bank of a river, in which ships are built or repaired. A dry dock has flood-gates to admit the tide, and to prevent the influx, as occasion may require. Wet docks have no flood-gates, but ships may be repaired in them during the recess of the tide. Wet docks are also constructed with gates to keep the water in at ebb tide, so that vessels may be constantly afloat in them. – Mar. Dict. Cyc. In America, the spaces between wharves are called docks.
  2. The place where a criminal stands in court.

DOCK, v.t. [W. tociaw, and twciaw, to clip, to cut off; whence docket and ticket. Class Dg, No. 19, 47.]

  1. To cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse.
  2. To cut off a part; to shorten; to deduct from; as, to dock an account.
  3. To cut off, destroy or defeat; to bar; as, to dock an entail.
  4. To bring, draw or place a ship in a dock.

DOCK'ED, pp.

Clipped; cut off, as the end of a thing.

DOCK'ET, n. [W. tociaw, to cut off, to clip, to dock; hence docket is a piece.]

  1. A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing. Also, a subscription at the foot of letters patent, by the clerk of the dockets. – Bailey.
  2. A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent. [See Ticket.] – Bailey.
  3. An alphabetical list of cases in a court, or a catalogue of the names of the parties who have suits depending in a court. In some of the States, this is the principal or only use of the word.

DOCK'ET, v.t.

  1. To make an abstract or summary of the heads of a writing or writings; to abstract and enter in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed. – Blackstone.
  2. To enter in a docket; to mark the contents of papers on the back of them.
  3. To mark with a docket. – Chesterfield.

DOCK'ET-ED, pp.

Abstracted and entered in a book. [See Docket.]

DOCK'ING, n.

The act of drawing, as a ship, into a dock. – Mar. Dict.

DOCK'ING, ppr.

Clipping; cutting off the end; placing in a dock.

DOCK'-MAS-TER, n.

One who has the superintendence of docks.

DOCK'-YARD, n.

A yard or magazine near a harbor, for containing all kinds of naval stores and timber.

DOC'TOR, n. [L. from doceo, to teach.]

  1. A teacher. There stood up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law. – Acts v.
  2. One who has passed all the degrees of a faculty, and is empowered to practice and teach it; as, a doctor in divinity, in physic, in law; or according to modern usage, a person who has received the highest degree in a faculty. The degree of doctor is conferred by universities and colleges, as an honorary mark of literary distinction. It is also conferred on physicians, as a professional degree.
  3. A learned man; a man skilled in a profession; a man of erudition. – Dryden. Digby.
  4. A physician; one whose occupation is to cure diseases.
  5. The title, doctor, is given to certain fathers of the church whose opinions are received as authorities, and in the Greek church, it is given to a particular officer who interprets the Scriptures. – Encyc. Doctor's Commons, the college of civilians in London.

DOC'TOR, v.i.

To practice physic. [Not elegant.]

DOC'TOR, v.t.

To apply medicines for the cure of diseases. [A popular use of this word, but not elegant.]

DOC'TOR-AL, a.

Relating to the degree of a doctor. – Johnson.

DOC'TOR-AL-LY, adv.

In the manner of a doctor. – Hakewill.

DOC'TOR-ATE, n.

The degree of a doctor. – Encyc.

DOC'TOR-ATE, v.t.

To make a doctor by conferring a degree. – Warton.

DOC'TOR-ED, pp.

Administered to by a physician; cured.

DOC'TOR-ING, ppr.

Applying medicines; curing.

DOC'TOR-LY, a.

Like a learned man. – Bp. Hall.

DOC'TOR-SHIP, n.

The degree or rank of doctor. – Clarendon. [Doctorate is now generally used.]

DOC'TRESS, or DOC'TOR-ESS, n.

A female physician.

DOC'TRIN-AIRE, or DOC'TRIN-A-RY, n. [or DOC'TRIN-IST.]

One fond of new systems.

DOC'TRIN-AL, a. [See Doctrine.]

  1. Pertaining to doctrine; containing a doctrine or something taught; as, a doctrinal observation; a doctrinal proposition.
  2. Pertaining to the act or means of teaching. The word of God serveth no otherwise, than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument. – Hooker.

DOC'TRIN-AL, n.

Something that is a part of doctrine. – South.