DOCILITY
DOCILITY, noun Teachableness; readiness to learn; aptness to be taught. The docility of elephants is remarkable.
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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 o...
DOCK
DOCK, noun [Gr., Latin] A genus of plants, the Rumex, of several species. Its root resembles a carrot.DOCK, verb transitive1. To cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to c...
DOCK-YARD
DOCK-YARD, noun A yard or magazine near a harbor, for containing all kinds of naval stores and timber.
DOCKET
DOCKET, noun1. 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,...
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. Acts 5:34.2. One who has passed all the degrees o...
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 th...
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 mast...
DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT, noun [Latin, to teach.]1. Precept; instruction; direction.2. Dogmatical precept; authoritative dogma.3. More generally, in present usage, written instruction, evidence...
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...
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.