Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To bring to an end by action; to perform completely; to finish; to accomplish; -- a sense conveyed by the construction, which is that of the past participle done.
Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat is done on one side only.
Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text.
Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To cheat; to gull; to overreach.
Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest.
Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
Do (v. i.) To act or behave in any manner; to conduct one's self.
Do (v. i.) To fare; to be, as regards health; as, they asked him how he did; how do you do to-day?
Do (v. i.) To succeed; to avail; to answer the purpose; to serve; as, if no better plan can be found, he will make this do.
Do (n.) Deed; act; fear.
Do (n.) Ado; bustle; stir; to do.
Do (n.) A cheat; a swindle.
Doab () A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers; as, the doab between the Ganges and the Jumna.
Doable (a.) Capable of being done.
Do-all (n.) General manager; factotum.
Doand (p. pr.) Doing.
Doat (v. i.) See Dote.
Dobber (n.) See Dabchick.
Dobber (n.) A float to a fishing line.
Dobbin (n.) An old jaded horse.
Dobbin (n.) Sea gravel mixed with sand.
Dobchick (n.) See Dabchick.
Dobson (n.) The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite.
Dobule (n.) The European dace.
Docent (a.) Serving to instruct; teaching.
Docetae (n. pl.) Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance.
Docetic (a.) Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docetae.
Docetism (n.) The doctrine of the Docetae.
Dochmiac (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, the dochmius.
Dochmius (n.) A foot of five syllables (usually / -- -/ -).
Docibility (n.) Alt. of Docibleness
Docibleness (n.) Aptness for being taught; teachableness; docility.
Docible (a.) Easily taught or managed; teachable.
Docile (a.) Teachable; easy to teach; docible.
Docile (a.) Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.
Docility (n.) teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness.
Docility (n.) Willingness to be taught; tractableness.
Docimacy (n.) The art or practice of applying tests to ascertain the nature, quality, etc., of objects, as of metals or ores, of medicines, or of facts pertaining to physiology.
Docimastic (a.) Proving by experiments or tests.
Docimology (n.) A treatise on the art of testing, as in assaying metals, etc.
Docity (n.) Teachableness.
Dock (n.) A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.
Dock (n.) The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting.
Dock (n.) A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
Docked (imp. & p. p.) of Dock
Docking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dock
Dock (v. t.) to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse.
Dock (v. t.) To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.
Dock (v. t.) To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.
Dock (n.) An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.
Dock (n.) The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock.
Dock (n.) The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands.
Dock (v. t.) To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc.
Dockage (n.) A charge for the use of a dock.
Dock-cress (n.) Nipplewort.
Docket (n.) A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.
Docket (n.) 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.
Docket (n.) 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.
Docket (n.) A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks.
Docket (n.) A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly.
Docketed (imp. & p. p.) of Docket
Docketing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Docket
Docket (v. t.) 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.
Docket (v. t.) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.
Docket (v. t.) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
Docket (v. t.) To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods.
Dockyard (n.) A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.
Docoglossa (n. pl.) An order of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon.
Docquet (n. & v.) See Docket.
Doctor (n.) A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.
Doctor (n.) 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.
Doctor (n.) One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.
Doctor (n.) 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.
Doctor (n.) The friar skate.
Doctored (imp. & p. p.) of Doctor
Doctoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doctor
Doctor (v. t.) To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.
Doctor (v. t.) To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
Doctor (v. t.) To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.
Doctor (v. i.) To practice physic.
Doctoral (a.) Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor.
Doctorally (adv.) In the manner of a doctor.
Doctorate (n.) The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
Doctorate (v. t.) To make (one) a doctor.
Doctoress (n.) A female doctor.
Doctorly (a.) Like a doctor or learned man.
Doctorship (n.) Doctorate.
Doctress (n.) A female doctor.
Doctrinable (a.) Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine.
Doctrinaire (n.) One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions.
Doctrinal (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation.
Doctrinal (a.) Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching.
Doctrinal (n.) A matter of doctrine; also, a system of doctrines.
Doctrinally (adv.) In a doctrinal manner or for; by way of teaching or positive direction.
Doctrinarian (n.) A doctrinaire.
Doctrinarianism (n.) The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires.
Doctrine (n.) Teaching; instruction.
Doctrine (n.) That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances.
Document (n.) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
Document (n.) An example for instruction or warning.