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Dive
DIVE, verb intransitive [Gr.]
1. To descend or plunge into water, as an animal head first; to thrust the body into water or other liquor, or if already in water, to plunge deeper. In the pearl fishery men are employed to dive for shells.
2. To go deep into any subject; as, to dive into the nature of things, into arts or science.
3. To plunge into any business or condition, so as to be thoroughly engaged in it.
4. To sink; to penetrate.
DIVE, thought, down to my soul.
DIVE, verb transitive To explore by diving. [Rare.]
The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of fame.
Divel
DIVEL, noun A large cartilaginous fish, with a bifurcated snout; the sea duvvil of Nieuhoff.
Divellent
DIVELLENT, adjective [Latin , to pull.] Drawing asunder; separating.
Divellicate
DIVELLICATE, verb transitive To pull in pieces.
Diver
DIVER, noun
1. One who dives; one who plunges head first into water; one who sinks by effort; as a diver in the pearl fishery.
2. One who goes deep into a subject, or enters deep into study.
3. A fowl, so called from diving. The name is given to several species of the genus Colymbus.
Diverb
DIVERB, noun A proverb. [Not in use.]
Diverge
DIVERGE, verb intransitive diverj. [Latin , to incline.] To tend from one point and recede from each other; to shoot, extend or proceed from a point in different directions, or not in parallel lines. Rays of light proceed from the sun and continually diverge It is opposed to converge.
Divergence
DIVERGENCE, noun A receding from each other; a going farther apart; as the divergence of lines, or the angle of divergence
Divergent
DIVERGENT, adjective Departing or receding from each other, as lines which proceed from the same point; opposed to convergent.
Diverging
DIVERGING, participle present tense Receding from each other, as they proceed.
Divergingly
DIVERGINGLY, adverb In a diverging manner.
Divers
DIVERS, adjective S as z. [Latin , to turn.]
1. Different; various.
Thou shalt not sow thy fields with divers seeds. .
Nor let thy cattle gender with divers kinds. .
[This is now generally written diverse.]
2. Several; sundry; more than one, but not a great number. We have divers examples of this kind. [This word is not obsolete even in common discourse, and is much used in law proceedings.]
Divers-Colored
DIVERS-COLORED, adjective Having various colors.
Diverse
DIVERSE, adjective [Latin]
1. Different; differing.
Four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. .
2. Different from itself; various; multiform.
Eloquence is a diverse thing.
3. In different directions.
And with tendrils creep diverse
DIVERSE, verb intransitive divers. To turn aside. [Not used.]
Diversification
DIVERSIFICATION, noun [See Diversify.]
1. The act of changing forms or qualities, or of making various.
2. Variation; variegation.
3. Variety of forms.
4. Change; alteration.
Diversiform
DIVERSIFORM, adjective Of a different form; of various forms.
Diversify
DIVERSIFY, verb transitive [Latin]
1. To make different or various in form or qualities; to give variety to; to variegate; as, to diversify the colors of a robe; to diversify a landscape with mountains, plains, trees and lakes.
2. To give diversity to; to distinguish by different things; as a council diversified by different characters.
3. In oratory, to vary a subject, by enlarging on what has been briefly stated, by brief recapitulation, by adding new ideas, by transposing words or periods, etc.
Diversifying
DIVERSIFYING, participle present tense Making various in form or qualities; giving variety to; variegating.
Diversiified
DIVERSIIFIED, participle passive
1. Made various in form or qualities; variegated; altered.
2. adjective Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of objects; as diversified scenery; a diversified landscape.
Diversion
DIVERSION, noun [Latin , to divert.]
1. The act of turning aside from any course; as the diversion of a stream from its usual channel; the diversion of a purpose to another object; the diversion of the mind from business or study.
2. That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care, business or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; whatever unbends the mind; as the diversion of youth. Works of wit and humor furnish an agreeable diversion to the studious.
3. In war, the act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made, as by an attack or alarm on one wing of an army, when the other wing or center is intended for the principal attack. The enemy, if deceived, is thus induced to withdraw a part of his force from the part where his foe intends to make the main impression.
Diversity
DIVERSITY, noun [Latin]
1. Difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness. There may be diversity without contrariety. There is a great diversity in human constitutions.
2. Variety; as a diversity of ceremonies in churches.
3. Distinct being, as opposed to identity.
4. Variegation.
Blushing in bright diversities of day.
Diversly
DIVERSLY, adverb [from diverse.]
1. In different ways; differently; variously; as a passage of scripture diversly interpreted or understood.
2. In different directions; to different points.
On lifes vast ocean diversly we sail.
Divert
DIVERT, verb transitive [Latin , to turn.]
1. To turn off from any course, direction or intended application; to turn aside; as, to divert a river from its usual channel; to divert commerce from its usual course; to divert appropriated money to other objects; to divert a man from his purpose.
2. To turn the mind from business or study; hence, to please; to amuse; to entertain; to exhilarate. Children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor; low minds are diverted with buffoonery in stage-playing.
3. To draw the forces of an enemy to a different point.
4. To subvert. [Not in use.]
Diverted
DIVERTED, participle passive Turned aside; turned or drawn from any course, or from the usual or intended direction; pleased; amused; entertained.
Diverter
DIVERTER, noun He or that which diverts, turns off, or pleases.
Diverticle
DIVERTICLE, noun [Latin] A turning; a by-way. [Not used.]
Diverting
DIVERTING, participle present tense
1. Turning off from any course; pleasing; entertaining.
2. adjective Pleasing; amusing; entertaining; as a diverting scene or sport.
Divertise
DIVERTISE, verb transitive s as z. To divert; to please. [Not used.]
Divertisement
DIVERTISEMENT, noun Diversion. [Little used.] Originally, a certain air or dance between the acts of the French opera, or a musical composition.
Divertive
DIVERTIVE, adjective Tending to divert; amusing.
Divest
DIVEST, verb transitive [Latin It is the same word as devest, but the latter is appropriately used as a technical term in law.]
1. To strip of clothes, arms or equipage; opposed to invest.
2. To deprive; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one of title or property.
3. To deprive or strip of any thing that covers , surrounds or attends; as, to divest one of his glory; to divest a subject of deceptive appearances, or false ornaments.
Divested
DIVESTED, participle passive Stripped; undressed; deprived.
Divesting
DIVESTING, participle present tense Stripping; putting off; depriving.
Divestiture
DIVESTITURE, DIVESTURE, noun The act of stripping, putting off, or depriving.
Divesture
DIVESTITURE, DIVESTURE noun The act of stripping, putting off, or depriving.
Dividable
DIVIDABLE, adjective [See Divide.]
1. That may be divided.
2. Separate; parted. [Not used nor proper.]
Divide
DIVIDE, verb transitive [Latin , to part. See the latter words.]
1. To part or separate an entire thing; to part a thing into two or more pieces.
DIVIDE the living child in two. .
2. To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition or by an imaginary line or limit. A wall divides two houses. The equator divides the earth into two hemispheres.
Let the firmament divide the waters from the waters. .
3. To make partition of, among a number.
Ye shall divide the land by lot. .
4. To open; to cleave.
Thou dist divide the sea. .
5. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant.
There shall be five in one house divided, three against two--.
6. To distribute; to separate and bestow in parts or shares.
And he divided to them his living. .
7. To make dividends; to apportion the interest or profits of stock among proprietors; as, the bank divides six per cent.
8. To separate into two parts, for ascertaining opinions for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house, in voting.
DIVIDE, verb intransitive
1. To part; to open; to cleave.
2. To break friendship; as, brothers divide
3. To vote by the division of a legislative house into two parts.
The emperors sat, voted and divided with their equals.
Divided
DIVIDED, participle passive Parted; disunited; distributed.
Dividedly
DIVIDEDLY, adverb Separately.
Dividend
DIVIDEND, noun
1. A part or share; particularly, the share of the interest or profit of stock in trade or other employment, which belongs to each proprietor according to his proportion of the stock or capital.
2. In arithmetic, the number to be divided into equal parts.
Divider
DIVIDER, noun
1. He or that which divides; that which separates into parts.
2. A distributor; one who deals out to each his share.
Who made me a judge or divider over you. .
3. He or that which disunites.
4. A kind of compasses.
Dividing
DIVIDING, participle present tense
1. Parting; separating; distributing; disuniting; apportioning to each his share.
2. adjective That indicates separation or difference; as a dividing line.
DIVIDING, noun Separation.
Dividual
DIVIDUAL, adjective [Latin] Divided, shared or participated in common with others. [Little used.]
Divination
DIVINATION, noun [Latin , to foretell. See Divine.]
1. The act of divining; a foretelling future events, or discovering things secret or obscure, by the aid of superior beings, or by other than human means. The ancient heathen philosophers divided divination into two kinds, natural and artificial. Natural divination was supposed to be effected by a kind of inspiration or divine afflatus; artificial divination was effected by certain rites, experiments or observations, as by sacrifices, cakes, flour, wine, observation of entrails, flight of birds, lots, verses, omens, position of the stars, etc.
2. Conjectural presage; prediction.
Divinator
DIVINATOR, noun One who pretends to divination.
Divinatory
DIVINATORY, adjective Professing divination.
Divine
DIVINE, adjective [Latin , a god.]
1. Pertaining to the true God; as the divine nature; divine perfections.
2. Pertaining to a heathen deity, or to false gods.
3. Partaking of the nature of God.
Half human, half divine
4. Proceeding from God; as divine judgments.
5. Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; extraordinary; apparently above what is human. In this application the word admits of comparison; as a divine invention; a divine genius; the divinest mind.
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. .
6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Not used.]
7. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; as divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
DIVINE, noun
1. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition, personal sanctity, and diligence in the pastoral office.
2. A man skilled in divinity; a theologian; as a great divine
DIVINE, verb transitive [Latin]
1. To foreknow; to foretell; to presage.
Darst thou divine his downfall?
2. To deify. [Not in use.]
DIVINE, verb intransitive
1. To use or practice divination.
2. To utter presages or prognostications.
The prophets thereof divine for money. .
3. To have presages or forebodings.
Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts--
4. To guess or conjecture.
Could you divine what lovers bear.
Divinely
DIVINELY, adverb
1. In a divine or godlike manner; in a manner resembling deity.
2. By the agency or influence of God; as a prophet divinely inspired; divinely taught.
3. Excellently; in the supreme degree; as divinely fair; divinely brave.
Divineness
DIVINENESS, noun
1. Divinity; participation of the divine nature; as the divineness of the scriptures. [Little used.]
2. Excellence in the supreme degree.
Diviner
DIVINER, noun
1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by the aid of superior beings, or of supernatural means.
These nations hearkened to diviners. .
2. One who guesses; a conjecturer.
Divineress
DIVINERESS, noun A female diviner; a woman professing divination.
Diving
DIVING, participle present tense [See Dive.]
1. Plunging or sinking into water or other liquid; applied to animals only.
2. Going deep into a subject.
Diving-Bell
DIVING-BELL, noun A hollow vessel in form of a truncated cone or pyramid, with the smaller base close, and the larger one open, in which a person may descend into deep water and remain, till the inclosed air ceases to be respirable.
Divinity
DIVINITY, noun [Latin]
1. The state of being divine; Deity; Godhead; the nature or essence of God. Christians ascribe divinity to one Supreme Being only.
2. God; the Deity; the Supreme Being.
Tis the divinity that stirs within us.
3. A false God; a pretended deity of pagans.
Beastly divinities, and droves of gods.
4. A celestial being, inferior to the Supreme God, but superior to man. Many nations believe in these inferior divinities.
5. Something supernatural.
They say there is divinity in odd numbers.
6. The science of divine things; the science which unfolds the character of God, his laws and moral government, the duties of man, and the way of salvation; theology; as the study of divinity; a system of divinity
Divisibility
DIVISIBILITY, noun [Latin See Divide.] The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts or component particles are capable of separation.
Divisible
DIVISIBLE, adjective S as z. [Latin See Divide.] Capable of division; that may be separated or disunited; separable. Matter is divisible indefinitely.
Divisibleness
DIVISIBLENESS, noun Divisibility; capacity of being separated.
Division
DIVISION, noun S as z. [Latin See Divide.]
1. The act of dividing or separating into parts, any entire body.
2. The state of being divided.
3. That which divides or separates; that which keeps apart; partition.
4. The part separated from the rest by a partition or line, real or imaginary; as the divisions of a field.
5. A separate body of men; as, communities and divisions of men.
6. A part or distinct portion; as the divisions of a discourse.
7. A part of an army or militia; a body consisting of a certain number of brigades usually two, and commanded by a major general. But the term is often applied to other bodies or portions of an army, as to a brigade, a squadron or a platoon.
8. A part of a fleet, or a select number of ships under a commander, and distinguished by a particular flag or pendant.
9. Disunion; discord; variance; difference.
There was a division among the people. .
10. Space between the notes of music, or the dividing of the tones.
11. Distinction.
I will put a division between my people and thy people. .
12. The separation of voters in a legislative house.
13. In arithmetic, the dividing of a number or quantity into any parts assigned; or the rule by which is found how many times one number is contained in another.
Divisional
DIVISIONAL, DIVISIONARY, adjective Pertaining to division; noting or making division; as a divisional line.
Divisionary
DIVISIONAL, DIVISIONARY adjective Pertaining to division; noting or making division; as a divisional line.
Divisioner
DIVISIONER, noun One who divides. [Not used.]
Divisive
DIVISIVE, adjective
1. Forming division or distribution.
2. Creating division or discord.
Divisor
DIVISOR, noun In arithmetic, the number by which the dividend is divided.
Divorce
DIVORCE, noun [Latin See Divert.]
1. A legal dissolution of the bonds of matrimony, or the separation of husband and wife by a judicial sentence. This is properly called a divorce and called technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii.
2. The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband, a mensa et thoro.
3. Separation; disunion of things closely united.
4. The sentence or writing by which marriage is dissolved.
5. The cause of any penal separation.
The long divorce of steel falls on me.
DIVORCE, verb transitive
1. To dissolve the marriage contract, and thus to separate husband and wife.
2. To separate, as a married woman from the bed and board of her husband.
3. To separate or disunite things closely connected; to force asunder.
4. To take away; to put away.
Divorced
DIVORCED, participle passive Separated by a dissolution of the marriage contract; separated from bed and board; parted; forced asunder.
Divorcement
DIVORCEMENT, noun Divorce; dissolution of the marriage tie.
Let him write her a bill of divorcement .
Divorcer
DIVORCER, noun
1. The person or cause that produces divorce.
2. One of a sect called divorcers, said to have sprung from Milton.
Divorcing
DIVORCING, participle present tense Dissolving the marriage contract; separating from bed and board; disuniting.
Divorcive
DIVORCIVE, adjective Having power to divorce.
Divulgate
DIVULGATE, adjective Published. [Little used.]
Divulgation
DIVULGATION, noun The act of divulging or publishing.
Divulge
DIVULGE, verb transitive divulj. [Latin , to make public; the common people; people.]
1. To make public; to tell or make known something before private or secret; to reveal; to disclose; as, to divulge the secret sentiments of a friend; to divulge the proceedings of the cabinet. divulge is more generally applied to verbal disclosures, and publish to printed accounts. But they may be used synonymously. We may publish by words, and divulge by the press.
2. To declare by a public act; to proclaim. [Unusual.]
Divulged
DIVULGED, participle passive Made public; revealed; disclosed; published.
Divulger
DIVULGER, noun One who divulges or reveals.
Divulging
DIVULGING, participle present tense Disclosing; publishing; revealing.
Divulsion
DIVULSION, noun [Latin , to pull.] The act of pulling or plucking away; a rending asunder.
And dire divulsions shook the changing world.
Divulsive
DIVULSIVE, adjective That pulls asunder; that rends.
Dizen
DIZEN, verb transitive dizn. To dress gayly; to deck.
This word is not esteemed elegant, and is nearly obsolete. Its compound bedizen is used in burlesque.
Dizz
DIZZ, verb transitive [See Dizzy.] To astonish; to puzzle; to make dizzy. [Not used.]
Dizzard
DIZZARD, noun [See Dizzy.] A blockhead. [Not used.]
Dizziness
DIZZINESS, noun [See Dizzy.] Giddiness; a whirling in the head; vertigo.
Dizzy
DIZZY, adjective [G., dizziness; dizzy ]
1. Giddy; having a sensation of whirling in the head, with instability or proneness to fall; vertiginous.
2. Causing giddiness; as a dizzy highth.
3. Giddy; thoughtless; heedless; as the dizzy multitude.
DIZZY, verb transitive To whirl round; to make giddy; to confuse.
Do
DO, verb transitive or auxiliary; preterit tense Did; participle passive Done, pronounced dun. This verb, when transitive, is formed in the indicative, present tense, thus, I do thou doest, he does or doth; when auxiliary, the second person is, thou dost. [G.]
1. To perform; to execute; to carry into effect; to exert labor or power for brining any thing to the state desired, or to completion; or to bring any thing to pass. We say, this man does his work well; he does more in one day than some men will do in two days.
In six days thou shalt do all thy work. .
I will teach you what ye shall do .
I the Lord do all these things. .
2. To practice; to perform; as, to do good or evil.
3. To perform for the benefit or injury of another; with for or to; for, when the thing is beneficial; to, in either case.
Till I know what God will do for me. .
DO to him neither good nor evil. But to is more generally omitted. do him neither good nor harm.
4. To execute; to discharge; to convey; as, do a message to the king.
5. To perform; to practice; to observe.
We lie and do not the truth. .
6. To exert.
DO thy diligence to come shortly to me. .
7. To transact; as, to do business with another.
8. To finish; to execute or transact and bring to a conclusion. The sense of completion is often implied in this verb; as, we will do the business and adjourn; we did the business and dined.
9. To perform in an exigency; to have recourse to, as a consequential or last effort; to take a step or measure; as, in this crisis, we knew not what to do
What will ye do in the day of visitation. .
10. To make or cause.
Nothing but death can do me to respire.
11. To put.
Who should do the duke to death?
12. To answer the purpose.
Ill make the songs of Durfy do
To have to do to have concern with.
What have I to do with you? .
What have I to do any more with idols?
To do with, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ. Commerce is dull; we know not what to do with our ships. Idle men know not what to do with their time or with themselves. Also, to gain; to effect by influence.
A jest with a sad brow will do with a fellow who never had the ache in his shoulders.
I can do nothing with this obstinate fellow.
Also, to have concern with; to have business; to deal. [See No. 12.]
To do away, to remove; to destroy; as, to do away imperfections; to do away prejudices.
DO, verb intransitive
1. To act or behave, in any manner, well or ill; to conduct ones self.
They fear not the Lord, neither do they after the law and commandment. .
2. To fare; to be in a state with regard to sickness or health.
How dost thou?
We asked him how he did. How do you do or how do you?
3. To succeed; to accomplish a purpose. We shall do without him. Will this plan do? Also, to fit; to be adapted; to answer the design; with for; as, this piece of timber will do for the corner post; this tenon will do for the mortise; the road is repaired and will do for the present.
To have to do with, to have concern or business with; to deal with. Have little to do with jealous men. Also, to have carnal commerce with.
DO is used for a verb to save the repetition of it. I shall probably come, but if I do not, you must not wait; that is, if I do not come, if I come not.
DO is also used in the imperative, to express an urgent request or command; as, do come; help me, do; make haste, do In this case, do is uttered with emphasis.
As an auxiliary, do is used in asking questions. do you intend to go? Does he wish me to come?
DO is also used to express emphasis. She is coquetish, but still I do love her.
DO is sometimes a mere expletive.
This just reproach their virtue does excite.
Expletives their feeble aid do join.
[The latter use of do is nearly obsolete.]
DO is sometimes used by way of opposition; as, I did love him, but he has lost my affections.
Doat
DOAT. [See Dote.]
Docibility
DOCIBILITY, DOCIBLENESS, noun Teachableness; docility; readiness to learn.
Docible
DOCIBLE, adjective [See Docile.] Teachable; docile; tractable; easily taught or managed.
Docibleness
DOCIBILITY, DOCIBLENESS noun Teachableness; docility; readiness to learn.
Docile
DOCILE, adjective [Latin , to teach. See Teach.] Teachable; easily instructed; ready to learn; tractable; easily managed. Some children are far more docile than others. Dogs are more docile than many other animals.
Docility
DOCILITY, noun Teachableness; readiness to learn; aptness to be taught. The docility of elephants is remarkable.
Docimacy
DOCIMACY, noun [Gr., See the next word.] The art or practice of assaying metals; metallurgy.
Docimastic
DOCIMASTIC, adjective [Gr., to try, essay, examine, proved; to prove.] Properly, essaying, proving by experiments, or relating to the assaying of metals. The docimastic art is otherwise called metallurgy. It is the art of assaying metals, or the art of separating them from foreign matters, and determining the nature and quantity of metallic substance contained in any ore or mineral.
Dock
DOCK, noun [Gr., Latin ] A genus of plants, the Rumex, of several species. Its root resembles a carrot.
DOCK, verb transitive
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, noun
1. The tail of a beast cut short or clipped; the stump of a tail; the solid part of the tail.
2. A case of leather to cover a horses dock
DOCK, noun 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 deep the water in at ebb tide, so that vessels may lie constantly afloat in them. In America, the spaces between wharves are called docks.
Dock-Yard
DOCK-YARD, noun A yard or magazine near a harbor, for containing all kinds of naval stores and timber.
Docket
DOCKET, noun
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.
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.]
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.
DOCKET, verb transitive
1. To make an abstract of summary of the heads of a writing or writings; to abstract and enter in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.
2. To enter in a docket; to mark the contents of papers on the back of them.
3. To mark with a docket
Docking
DOCKING, participle present tense Clipping; cutting off the end; placing in a dock.
DOCKING, noun The act of drawing, as a ship, into a dock.
Doctor
DOCTOR, noun [Latin , to teach.]
1. A teacher.
There stood up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law. .
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, ad 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.
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.
DOCTORs Commons, the college of civilians in London.
DOCTOR, verb transitive To apply medicines for the cure of diseases. [A popular use of this word, but not elegant.]
DOCTOR, verb intransitive To practice physic. [Not elegant.]
Doctoral
DOCTORAL, adjective Relating to the degree of a doctor.
Doctorally
DOCTORALLY, adverb In the manner of a doctor.
Doctorate
DOCTORATE, noun The degree of a doctor.
DOCTORATE, verb transitive To make a doctor by conferring a degree.
Doctoress
DOCTRESS, DOCTORESS noun A females physician.
Doctorly
DOCTORLY, adjective Like a learned man.
Doctorship
DOCTORSHIP, noun The degree or rank of a doctor. [Doctorate is now generally used.]
Doctress
DOCTRESS, DOCTORESS, noun A females physician.
Doctrinal
DOCTRINAL, adjective [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.
DOCTRINAL, noun Something that is a part of doctrine.
Doctrinally
DOCTRINALLY, adv In the form of doctrine or instruction; by way of teaching or positive direction.
Doctrine
DOCTRINE, noun [Latin , to teach.]
1. In a general sense, whatever is taught. Hence, a principle or position in any science; whatever is laid down as true by an instructor or master. The doctrines of the gospel are the principles or truths taught by Christ and his apostles. The doctrines of Plato are the principles which he taught. Hence a doctrine may be true or false; it may be a mere tenet or opinion.
2. The act of teaching.
He taught them many things by parables, and said to them in his doctrine .
3. Learning; knowledge.
Whom shall he make to understand doctrine? .
4. The truths of the gospel in general.
That they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. .
5. Instruction and confirmation in the truths of the gospel. .
Document
DOCUMENT, noun [Latin , to teach.]
1. Precept; instruction; direction.
2. Dogmatical precept; authoritative dogma.
3. More generally, in present usage, written instruction, evidence or proof; any official or authoritative paper containing instructions or proof, for information and the establishment of facts. Thus, the president laid before congress the report of the secretary, accompanied with all the documents.
DOCUMENT, verb transitive
1. To furnish with documents; to furnish with instructions and proofs, or with papers necessary to establish facts. A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
2. To teach; to instruct; to direct.
Documental
DOCUMENTAL, adjective Pertaining to instruction or to documents; consisting in or derived from documents; as documental testimony.
Documentary
DOCUMENTARY, adjective Pertaining to written evidence; consisting in documents.
Dodder
DODDER, noun [G.] A plant of the genus Cuscuta, one species of which is called hell-weed. It is almost destitute of leaves, parasitical, creeping and fixing itself to some other plant, as to hops, flax and particularly to the nettle. It decays at the root, and is nourished by the plant that supports it, by means of little vesicles or papillae, which attach themselves to the stalk.
Doddered
DODDERED, adjective Overgrown with dodder; covered with supercrescent plants.
Dodecagon
DODECAGON, noun [Gr., twelve; an angle.] A regular figure or polygon, consisting of twelve equal sides and angles.
Dodecagyn
DODECAGYN, noun [Gr., twelve; a female.] In botany, a plant having twelve pistils.
Dodecagynian
DODECAGYNIAN, adjective Having twelve pistils.
Dodecahedral
DODECAHEDRAL, adjective [infra.] Pertaining to a dodecahedron; consisting of twelve equal sides.
Dodecahedron
DODECAHEDRON, noun [Gr., twelve; a base.] A regular solid contained under twelve equal and regular pentagons, or having twelve equal bases.
Dodecander
DODECANDER, noun [Gr., twelve; a male.] In botany, a plant having twelve stamens; one of the class dodecandria. But this class includes all plants that have any number of stamens from twelve to nineteen inclusive.
Dodecandrian
DODECANDRIAN, adjective Pertaining to the plants or class of plants that have twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.
Dodecatemorion
DODECATEMORION, noun [Gr., twelfth; part.] A twelfth part. [Little used.]
Dodecatemory
DODECATEMORY, noun A denomination sometimes given to each of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Dodge
DODGE, verb intransitive doj. [from some root signifying to shoot, dart or start.]
1. To start suddenly aside; to shift place by a sudden start.
2. To play tricks; to be evasive; to use tergiversation; to play fast and loose; to raise expectations and disappoint them; to quibble.
DODGE, verb transitive To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed; to dodge a canon ball. [This is a common word, very expressive and useful, but not admissible in solemn discourse or elegant composition.]
Dodger
DODGER, noun One who dodges or evades.
Dodging
DODGING, participle present tense Starting aside; evading.
Dodkin
DODKIN, noun A little doit; a small coin.
Dodman
DODMAN, noun A fish that casts its shell, like the lobster and crab.
Dodo
DODO, noun The Didus, a genus of fowls of the gallinaceous order. The hooded dodo is large than a swan, with a strong hooked bill. The general color of the plumage is cinereous; the belly and thighs whitish. The head is large, and seems as if covered with a hood. The solitary dodo is a large fowl, and is said to weigh sometimes forty five pounds. The plumage is gray and brown mixed.
Doe
DOE, noun Do. A she deer; the female of the fallow-deer. The male is called a buck.
DOE, noun A feat. [Not used.]
Doer
DOER, noun [from do.]
1. One who does; one who performs or executes; an actor; an agent.
2. One who performs what is required; one who observes, keeps or obeys, in practice.
The doers of the law shall be justified. .
Does
DOES, the third person of the verb do, indicative mode, present tense, contracted from doeth.
Doff
DOFF, verb transitive
1. To put off, as dress.
And made us doff our easy robes of peace.
2. To strip or divest; as, he doffs himself.
3. To put or thrust away; to get rid of.
To doff their dire distresses.
4. To put off; to shift off; with a view to delay.
Every day thou doffst me with some device.
[This word is, I believe, entirely obsolete in discourse, at least in the United States, but is retained in poetry.]
Dog
DOG, noun
1. A species of quadrupeds, belonging to the genus Canis, of many varieties, as the mastiff, the hound, the spaniel, the shepherds dog the terrier, the harrier, the bloodhound, etc.
2. It is used for male, when applied to several other animals; as a dog-fox; a dog-otter; dog-ape. It is prefixed to other words, denoting what is mean, degenerate or worthless; as dog-rose.
3. An andiron, so named from the figure of a dogs head on the top.
4. A term of reproach or contempt given to a man.
5. A constellation called Sirius or Canicula. [See Dog-day.]
6. An iron hook or bar with a sharp fang, used by seamen.
7. An iron used by sawyers to fasten a log of timber in a saw-pit.
8. A gay young man; a buck. [Not in use.]
To give or throw to the dogs, is to throw away, as useless.
To go to the dogs, is to be ruined.
DOG, verb transitive To hunt; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to follow close; to urge; to worry with importunity.
I have been pursued, dogged and and way-laid.
Dog-Cabbage
DOG-CABBAGE, noun A plant growing in the south of Europe, the cynocrambe, constituting the genus Theligonum.
Dog-Mad
DOG-MAD, adjective Mad as a dog.
Dogate
DOGATE, noun [See Doge.] The office or dignity of a doge.
Dogberry
DOGBERRY, noun The berry of the dogwood.
Dogberry-Tree
DOGBERRY-TREE, noun The dogwood.
Dogbrier
DOGBRIER, noun The brier that bears the hip; the cynosbaton.
Dogcheap
DOGCHEAP, adjective Cheap as dogs meat, or offal; very cheap.
Dogday
DOGDAY, noun One of the days when Sirius or the dogstar rises and sets with the sun. The dogdays commence the latter part of July, and end the beginning of September.
Dogdraw
DOGDRAW, noun A manifest deprehension of an offender against the venison in the forest, when he is found drawing after the deer by the scent of a hound led by the hand.
Doge
DOGE, noun [Latin , to lead.] The chief magistrate of Venice and Genoa.
Dogfight
DOGFIGHT, noun A battle between two dogs.
Dogfish
DOGFISH, noun A name given to several species of shark, as the spotted shark or greater dogfish the piked dogfish etc.
Dogfly
DOGFLY, noun A voracious, biting fly.
Dogged
DOGGED, participle passive
1. Pursued closely; urged frequently and importunately.
2. adjective Sullen; sour; morose; surly; severe.
Doggedly
DOGGEDLY, adverb Sullenly; gloomily; sourly; morosely; severely.
Doggedness
DOGGEDNESS, noun Sullenness; moroseness.
Dogger
DOGGER, noun A Dutch fishing vessel used in the German ocean, particularly in the herring fishery. It is equipped with two masts, a main-mast and a mizen-mast, somewhat resembling a ketch.
Doggerel
DOGGEREL, adjective An epithet given to a kind of loose, irregular measure in burlesque poetry, like that of Hudibras; as doggerel verse or rhyme.
DOGGEREL, noun A loose, irregular kind of poetry; used in burlesque.
Doggerman
DOGGERMAN, noun A sailor belonging to a dogger.
Doggers
DOGGERS, noun In English alum works, a sort of stone found in the mines with the true alum-rock, containing some alum.
Dogging
DOGGING, participle present tense [from dog.] Hunting; pursuing incessantly or importunately.
Doggish
DOGGISH, adjective Like a dog; churlish; growling; snappish; brutal.
Doghearted
DOGHEARTED, adjective Cruel; pitiless; malicious.
Doghole
DOGHOLE, noun A place fit only for dogs; a vile, mean habitation.
Doghouse
DOGHOUSE, noun A kennel for dogs.
Dogkennel
DOGKENNEL, noun A kennel or hut for dogs.
Dogleach
DOGLEACH, noun A dog-doctor.
Doglouse
DOGLOUSE, noun An insect that is found on dogs.
Dogly
DOGLY, adjective Like a dog. [Not in use.]
Dogma
DOGMA, noun [Gr., to think; Latin ] A settled opinion; a principle, maxim or tenet; a doctrinal notion, particularly in matters of faith and philosophy; as the dogmas of the church; the dogmas of Plato.
Compliment my dogma and I will compliment yours.
Dogmatic
DOGMATIC, DOGMATICAL, a. 1. Pertaining to a dogma, or to settled opinion.2. Positive; magisterial; asserting or disposed to assert with authority or with overbearing and arrogance; applied to persons; as a dogmatic schoolman or philosopher.3. Positive; asserted with authority; authoritative; as a dogmatical opinion.4. Arrogant; overbearing in asserting and maintaining opinions.
Dogmatical
DOGMATIC, DOGMATICAL adjective
1. Pertaining to a dogma, or to settled opinion.
2. Positive; magisterial; asserting or disposed to assert with authority or with overbearing and arrogance; applied to persons; as a dogmatic schoolman or philosopher.
3. Positive; asserted with authority; authoritative; as a DOGMATICAL opinion.
4. Arrogant; overbearing in asserting and maintaining opinions.
Dogmatically
DOGMATICALLY, adverb Positively; in a magisterial manner; arrogantly.
Dogmaticalness
DOGMATICALNESS, noun The quality of being dogmatical; positiveness.
Dogmatism
DOGMATISM, noun Positive assertion; arrogance; positiveness in opinion.
Dogmatist
DOGMATIST, noun A positive asserter; a magisterial teacher; a bold or arrogant advancer of principles.
Dogmatize
DOGMATIZE, verb intransitive To assert positively; to teach with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.
Men often dogmatize most, when they are least supported by reason.
Dogmatizer
DOGMATIZER, noun One who dogmatizes; a bold assertor; a magisterial teacher.
Dogmatizing
DOGMATIZING, participle present tense Asserting with excess of confidence.
Dogrose
DOGROSE, noun The flower of the hip.
Dogs-Bane
DOGS-BANE, noun [Gr.] A genus of plants, the Apocynum, of several species; also, the Asclepias.
Dogs-Ear
DOGS-EAR, noun The corner of a leaf in a book turned down like a dogs ear.
Dogs-Meat
DOGS-MEAT, noun Refuse; offal; meat for dogs.
Dogs-Rue
DOGS-RUE, noun A plant, a species of Scrophularia.
Dogsick
DOGSICK, adjective Sick as a dog.
Dogskin
DOGSKIN, adjective Made of the skin of a dog.
Dogsleep
DOGSLEEP, noun Pretended sleep.
Dogstar
DOGSTAR, noun Sirius, a star of the first magnitude, whose rising and setting with the sun gives name to the dogdays.
Dogstones
DOGSTONES, noun A plant, the Orchis or fool-stones.
Dogtooth
DOGTOOTH, noun plural Dogteeth. A sharp-pointed human tooth growing between the foreteeth and grinders, and resembling a dogs tooth. It is called also an eye tooth.
Dogtooth-Violet
DOGTOOTH-VIOLET, noun A plant, the Erythronium.
Dogtrick
DOGTRICK, noun A currish trick; brutal treatment.
Dogtrot
DOGTROT, noun A gentle trot like that of a dog.
Dogvane
DOGVANE, noun Among seamen, a small vane composed of thread, cork and feathers, fastened to a half pike and placed on the weather gun-wale, to assist in steering a ship on the wind.
Dogwatch
DOGWATCH, noun Among seamen, a watch of two hours. The dogwatches are two reliefs between 4 and 8 oclock, P.M.
Dogweary
DOGWEARY, adjective Quite tired; much fatigued.
Dogwood
DOGWOOD, noun A common name of different species of Cornus or cornelian cherry.
Dogwood-Tree
DOGWOOD-TREE, noun The Piscidia erythrina, a tree growing in Jamaica.
Doily
DOILY, noun
1. A species of woolen stuff, said to be so called from the first maker.
2. Linen made into a small napkin.
Doing
DOING, participle present tense [See Do.] Performing; executing.
Doings
DOINGS, noun plural
1. Things done; transactions; feats; actions, good or bad.
2. Behavior; conduct.
3. Stir; bustle.
Doit
DOIT, noun [G.]
1. A small piece of money.
2. A trifle. Hence our vulgar phrase, I care not a doit It is used adverbially and commonly pronounced dite.
Dolabriform
DOLABRIFORM, adjective [Latin , an ax; form.] Having the form of an ax or hatchet.
Dole
DOLE, noun [See Deal.]
1. The act of dealing or distributing; as the power of dole and donative. [Not in use.]
2. That which is dealt or distributed; a part, share or portion.
3. That which is given in charity; gratuity.
4. Blows dealt out.
5. Boundary. [Not in use.]
6. A void space left in tillage. [Local.]
DOLE, noun [Latin , pain, grief.] Grief; sorrow.
DOLE, verb transitive To deal; to distribute. [Not used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.