DOCTORATE — DOLESOMENESS NWAD DOCTORATE.1
DOCTORATE, n. The degree of a doctor. NWAD DOCTORATE.1
DOCTORATE, v.t. To make a doctor by conferring a degree. NWAD DOCTORATE.2
DOCTORLY, a. Like a learned man. NWAD DOCTORLY.1
DOCTORSHIP, n. The degree or rank of a doctor. [Doctorate is now generally used.] NWAD DOCTORSHIP.1
DOCTRESS, DOCTORESS, n. A females physician. NWAD DOCTRESS.1
DOCTRINAL, a. [See Doctrine.] NWAD DOCTRINAL.1
1. Pertaining to doctrine; containing a doctrine or something taught; as a doctrinal observation; a doctrinal proposition. NWAD DOCTRINAL.2
2. Pertaining to the act or means of teaching. NWAD DOCTRINAL.3
The word of God serveth no otherwise, than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument. NWAD DOCTRINAL.4
DOCTRINAL, n. Something that is a part of doctrine. NWAD DOCTRINAL.5
DOCTRINALLY, adv. In the form of doctrine or instruction; by way of teaching or positive direction. NWAD DOCTRINALLY.1
DOCTRINE, n. [L., to teach.] NWAD DOCTRINE.1
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. NWAD DOCTRINE.2
2. The act of teaching. NWAD DOCTRINE.3
He taught them many things by parables, and said to them in his doctrine. Mark 4:2. NWAD DOCTRINE.4
3. Learning; knowledge. NWAD DOCTRINE.5
Whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Isaiah 28:9. NWAD DOCTRINE.6
4. The truths of the gospel in general. NWAD DOCTRINE.7
That they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. Titus 2:10. NWAD DOCTRINE.8
5. Instruction and confirmation in the truths of the gospel. 2 Timothy 3:10, 16. NWAD DOCTRINE.9
DOCUMENT, n. [L., to teach.] NWAD DOCUMENT.1
1. Precept; instruction; direction. NWAD DOCUMENT.2
2. Dogmatical precept; authoritative dogma. NWAD DOCUMENT.3
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. NWAD DOCUMENT.4
DOCUMENT, v.t. NWAD DOCUMENT.5
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. NWAD DOCUMENT.6
2. To teach; to instruct; to direct. NWAD DOCUMENT.7
DOCUMENTAL, a. Pertaining to instruction or to documents; consisting in or derived from documents; as documental testimony. NWAD DOCUMENTAL.1
DOCUMENTARY, a. Pertaining to written evidence; consisting in documents. NWAD DOCUMENTARY.1
DODDER, n. [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. NWAD DODDER.1
DODDERED, a. Overgrown with dodder; covered with supercrescent plants. NWAD DODDERED.1
DODECAGON, n. [Gr., twelve; an angle.] A regular figure or polygon, consisting of twelve equal sides and angles. NWAD DODECAGON.1
DODECAGYN, n. [Gr., twelve; a female.] In botany, a plant having twelve pistils. NWAD DODECAGYN.1
DODECAGYNIAN, a. Having twelve pistils. NWAD DODECAGYNIAN.1
DODECAHEDRAL, a. [infra.] Pertaining to a dodecahedron; consisting of twelve equal sides. NWAD DODECAHEDRAL.1
DODECAHEDRON, n. [Gr., twelve; a base.] A regular solid contained under twelve equal and regular pentagons, or having twelve equal bases. NWAD DODECAHEDRON.1
DODECANDER, n. [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. NWAD DODECANDER.1
DODECANDRIAN, a. Pertaining to the plants or class of plants that have twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen. NWAD DODECANDRIAN.1
DODECATEMORION, n. [Gr., twelfth; part.] A twelfth part. [Little used.] NWAD DODECATEMORION.1
DODECATEMORY, n. A denomination sometimes given to each of the twelve signs of the zodiac. NWAD DODECATEMORY.1
DODGE, v.i. doj. [from some root signifying to shoot, dart or start.] NWAD DODGE.1
1. To start suddenly aside; to shift place by a sudden start. NWAD DODGE.2
2. To play tricks; to be evasive; to use tergiversation; to play fast and loose; to raise expectations and disappoint them; to quibble. NWAD DODGE.3
DODGE, v.t. 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.] NWAD DODGE.4
DODGER, n. One who dodges or evades. NWAD DODGER.1
DODGING, ppr. Starting aside; evading. NWAD DODGING.1
DODKIN, n. A little doit; a small coin. NWAD DODKIN.1
DODMAN, n. A fish that casts its shell, like the lobster and crab. NWAD DODMAN.1
DODO, n. 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. NWAD DODO.1
DOE, n. Do. A she deer; the female of the fallow-deer. The male is called a buck. NWAD DOE.1
DOE, n. A feat. [Not used.] NWAD DOE.2
DOER, n. [from do.] NWAD DOER.1
1. One who does; one who performs or executes; an actor; an agent. NWAD DOER.2
2. One who performs what is required; one who observes, keeps or obeys, in practice. NWAD DOER.3
The doers of the law shall be justified. Romans 2:13. NWAD DOER.4
DOES, the third person of the verb do, indicative mode, present tense, contracted from doeth. NWAD DOES.1
DOFF, v.t. NWAD DOFF.1
1. To put off, as dress. NWAD DOFF.2
And made us doff our easy robes of peace. NWAD DOFF.3
2. To strip or divest; as, he doffs himself. NWAD DOFF.4
3. To put or thrust away; to get rid of. NWAD DOFF.5
To doff their dire distresses. NWAD DOFF.6
4. To put off; to shift off; with a view to delay. NWAD DOFF.7
Every day thou doffst me with some device. NWAD DOFF.8
[This word is, I believe, entirely obsolete in discourse, at least in the United States, but is retained in poetry.] NWAD DOFF.9
DOG, n. NWAD DOG.1
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. NWAD DOG.2
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. NWAD DOG.3
3. An andiron, so named from the figure of a dogs head on the top. NWAD DOG.4
4. A term of reproach or contempt given to a man. NWAD DOG.5
5. A constellation called Sirius or Canicula. [See Dog-day.] NWAD DOG.6
6. An iron hook or bar with a sharp fang, used by seamen. NWAD DOG.7
7. An iron used by sawyers to fasten a log of timber in a saw-pit. NWAD DOG.8
8. A gay young man; a buck. [Not in use.] NWAD DOG.9
To give or throw to the dogs, is to throw away, as useless. NWAD DOG.10
To go to the dogs, is to be ruined. NWAD DOG.11
DOG, v.t. To hunt; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to follow close; to urge; to worry with importunity. NWAD DOG.12
I have been pursued, dogged and and way-laid. NWAD DOG.13
DOGATE, n. [See Doge.] The office or dignity of a doge. NWAD DOGATE.1
DOGBERRY, n. The berry of the dogwood. NWAD DOGBERRY.1
DOGBERRY-TREE, n. The dogwood. NWAD DOGBERRY-TREE.1
DOGBRIER, n. The brier that bears the hip; the cynosbaton. NWAD DOGBRIER.1
DOG-CABBAGE, n. A plant growing in the south of Europe, the cynocrambe, constituting the genus Theligonum. NWAD DOG-CABBAGE.1
DOGCHEAP, a. Cheap as dogs meat, or offal; very cheap. NWAD DOGCHEAP.1
DOGDAY, n. 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. NWAD DOGDAY.1
DOGDRAW, n. 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. NWAD DOGDRAW.1
DOGE, n. [L., to lead.] The chief magistrate of Venice and Genoa. NWAD DOGE.1
DOGFIGHT, n. A battle between two dogs. NWAD DOGFIGHT.1
DOGFISH, n. A name given to several species of shark, as the spotted shark or greater dogfish, the piked dogfish, etc. NWAD DOGFISH.1
DOGFLY, n. A voracious, biting fly. NWAD DOGFLY.1
DOGGED, pp. NWAD DOGGED.1
1. Pursued closely; urged frequently and importunately. NWAD DOGGED.2
2. a. Sullen; sour; morose; surly; severe. NWAD DOGGED.3
DOGGEDLY, adv. Sullenly; gloomily; sourly; morosely; severely. NWAD DOGGEDLY.1
DOGGEDNESS, n. Sullenness; moroseness. NWAD DOGGEDNESS.1
DOGGER, n. 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. NWAD DOGGER.1
DOGGEREL, a. An epithet given to a kind of loose, irregular measure in burlesque poetry, like that of Hudibras; as doggerel verse or rhyme. NWAD DOGGEREL.1
DOGGEREL, n. A loose, irregular kind of poetry; used in burlesque. NWAD DOGGEREL.2
DOGGERMAN, n. A sailor belonging to a dogger. NWAD DOGGERMAN.1
DOGGERS, n. In English alum works, a sort of stone found in the mines with the true alum-rock, containing some alum. NWAD DOGGERS.1
DOGGING, ppr. [from dog.] Hunting; pursuing incessantly or importunately. NWAD DOGGING.1
DOGGISH, a. Like a dog; churlish; growling; snappish; brutal. NWAD DOGGISH.1
DOGHEARTED, a. Cruel; pitiless; malicious. NWAD DOGHEARTED.1
DOGHOLE, n. A place fit only for dogs; a vile, mean habitation. NWAD DOGHOLE.1
DOGHOUSE, n. A kennel for dogs. NWAD DOGHOUSE.1
DOGKENNEL, n. A kennel or hut for dogs. NWAD DOGKENNEL.1
DOGLEACH, n. A dog-doctor. NWAD DOGLEACH.1
DOGLOUSE, n. An insect that is found on dogs. NWAD DOGLOUSE.1
DOGLY, a. Like a dog. [Not in use.] NWAD DOGLY.1
DOG-MAD, a. Mad as a dog. NWAD DOG-MAD.1
DOGMA, n. [Gr., to think; L.] 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. NWAD DOGMA.1
Compliment my dogma, and I will compliment yours. NWAD DOGMA.2
1. Pertaining to a dogma, or to settled opinion. NWAD DOGMATIC.2
2. Positive; magisterial; asserting or disposed to assert with authority or with overbearing and arrogance; applied to persons; as a dogmatic schoolman or philosopher. NWAD DOGMATIC.3
3. Positive; asserted with authority; authoritative; as a dogmatical opinion. NWAD DOGMATIC.4
4. Arrogant; overbearing in asserting and maintaining opinions. NWAD DOGMATIC.5
DOGMATICALLY, adv. Positively; in a magisterial manner; arrogantly. NWAD DOGMATICALLY.1
DOGMATICALNESS, n. The quality of being dogmatical; positiveness. NWAD DOGMATICALNESS.1
DOGMATISM, n. Positive assertion; arrogance; positiveness in opinion. NWAD DOGMATISM.1
DOGMATIST, n. A positive asserter; a magisterial teacher; a bold or arrogant advancer of principles. NWAD DOGMATIST.1
DOGMATIZE, v.i. To assert positively; to teach with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance. NWAD DOGMATIZE.1
Men often dogmatize most, when they are least supported by reason. NWAD DOGMATIZE.2
DOGMATIZER, n. One who dogmatizes; a bold assertor; a magisterial teacher. NWAD DOGMATIZER.1
DOGMATIZING, ppr. Asserting with excess of confidence. NWAD DOGMATIZING.1
DOGROSE, n. The flower of the hip. NWAD DOGROSE.1
DOG’S-BANE, n. [Gr.] A genus of plants, the Apocynum, of several species; also, the Asclepias. NWAD DOGS-BANE.1
DOG’S-EAR, n. The corner of a leaf in a book turned down like a dogs ear. NWAD DOGS-EAR.1
DOGSICK, a. Sick as a dog. NWAD DOGSICK.1
DOGSKIN, a. Made of the skin of a dog. NWAD DOGSKIN.1
DOGSLEEP, n. Pretended sleep. NWAD DOGSLEEP.1
DOG’S-MEAT, n. Refuse; offal; meat for dogs. NWAD DOGS-MEAT.1
DOG’S-RUE, n. A plant, a species of Scrophularia. NWAD DOGS-RUE.1
DOGSTAR, n. Sirius, a star of the first magnitude, whose rising and setting with the sun gives name to the dogdays. NWAD DOGSTAR.1
DOGSTONES, n. A plant, the Orchis or fool-stones. NWAD DOGSTONES.1
DOGTOOTH, n. plu. Dogteeth. A sharp-pointed human tooth growing between the foreteeth and grinders, and resembling a dogs tooth. It is called also an eye tooth. NWAD DOGTOOTH.1
DOGTOOTH-VIOLET, n. A plant, the Erythronium. NWAD DOGTOOTH-VIOLET.1
DOGTRICK, n. A currish trick; brutal treatment. NWAD DOGTRICK.1
DOGTROT, n. A gentle trot like that of a dog. NWAD DOGTROT.1
DOGVANE, n. 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. NWAD DOGVANE.1
DOGWATCH, n. Among seamen, a watch of two hours. The dogwatches are two reliefs between 4 and 8 o’clock, P.M. NWAD DOGWATCH.1
DOGWEARY, a. Quite tired; much fatigued. NWAD DOGWEARY.1
DOGWOOD, n. A common name of different species of Cornus or cornelian cherry. NWAD DOGWOOD.1
DOGWOOD-TREE, n. The Piscidia erythrina, a tree growing in Jamaica. NWAD DOGWOOD-TREE.1
DOILY, n. NWAD DOILY.1
1. A species of woolen stuff, said to be so called from the first maker. NWAD DOILY.2
2. Linen made into a small napkin. NWAD DOILY.3
DOING, ppr. [See Do.] Performing; executing. NWAD DOING.1
DOINGS, n. plu. NWAD DOINGS.1
1. Things done; transactions; feats; actions, good or bad. NWAD DOINGS.2
2. Behavior; conduct. NWAD DOINGS.3
3. Stir; bustle. NWAD DOINGS.4
DOIT, n. [G.] NWAD DOIT.1
1. A small piece of money. NWAD DOIT.2
2. A trifle. Hence our vulgar phrase, I care not a doit. It is used adverbially and commonly pronounced dite. NWAD DOIT.3
DOLABRIFORM, a. [L., an ax; form.] Having the form of an ax or hatchet. NWAD DOLABRIFORM.1
DOLE, n. [See Deal.] NWAD DOLE.1
1. The act of dealing or distributing; as the power of dole and donative. [Not in use.] NWAD DOLE.2
2. That which is dealt or distributed; a part, share or portion. NWAD DOLE.3
3. That which is given in charity; gratuity. NWAD DOLE.4
4. Blows dealt out. NWAD DOLE.5
5. Boundary. [Not in use.] NWAD DOLE.6
6. A void space left in tillage. [Local.] NWAD DOLE.7
DOLE, n. [L., pain, grief.] Grief; sorrow. NWAD DOLE.8
DOLE, v.t. To deal; to distribute. [Not used.] NWAD DOLE.9
DOLEFUL, a. [dole and full.] NWAD DOLEFUL.1
1. Sorrowful; expressing grief; as a doleful whine; a doleful cry. NWAD DOLEFUL.2
2. Melancholy; sad; afflicted; as a doleful sire. NWAD DOLEFUL.3
3. Dismal; impressing sorrow; gloomy; as doleful shades. NWAD DOLEFUL.4
DOLEFULLY, adv. In a doleful manner; sorrowfully; dismally; sadly. NWAD DOLEFULLY.1
DOLEFULNESS, n. Sorrow; melancholy; querulousness; gloominess; dismalness. NWAD DOLEFULNESS.1
DOLENT, a. [L.] Sorrowful. [Not in use.] NWAD DOLENT.1
DOLESOME, a. Gloomy; dismal; sorrowful; doleful. NWAD DOLESOME.1
The dolesome passage to th infernal sky. NWAD DOLESOME.2
DOLESOMENESS, n. Gloom; dismalness. NWAD DOLESOMENESS.1