Document (n.) An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else; -- in its most extended sense, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol.
Document (v. t.) To teach; to school.
Document (v. t.) To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
Documental (a.) Of or pertaining to instruction.
Documental (a.) Of or pertaining to written evidence; documentary; as, documental testimony.
Documentary (a.) Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing.
Dodd (v. t.) Alt. of Dod
Dod (v. t.) To cut off, as wool from sheep's tails; to lop or clip off.
Doddart (n.) A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game.
Dodded (a.) Without horns; as, dodded cattle; without beards; as, dodded corn.
Dodder (n.) A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root, is nourished by the plant that supports it.
Dodder (v. t. & i.) To shake, tremble, or totter.
Doddered (a.) Shattered; infirm.
Dodecagon (n.) A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles.
Dodecagynia (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having twelve styles.
Dodecagynian (a.) Alt. of Dodecagynous
Dodecagynous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Dodecagynia; having twelve styles.
Dodecahedral (a.) Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides.
Dodecahedron (n.) A solid having twelve faces.
Dodecandria (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.
Dodecandrian (a.) Alt. of Dodecandrous
Dodecandrous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.
Dodecane (n.) Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series.
Dodecastyle (a.) Having twelve columns in front.
Dodecastyle (n.) A dodecastyle portico, or building.
Dodecasyllabic (a.) Having twelve syllables.
Dodecasyllable (n.) A word consisting of twelve syllables.
Dodecatemory (n.) A tern applied to the twelve houses, or parts, of the zodiac of the primum mobile, to distinguish them from the twelve signs; also, any one of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Dodged (imp. & p. p.) of Dodge
Dodging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dodge
Dodge (v. i.) To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
Dodge (v. i.) To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
Dodge (v. t.) To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.
Dodge (v. t.) Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.
Dodge (v. t.) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
Dodge (n.) The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice.
Dodger (n.) One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices.
Dodger (n.) A small handbill.
Dodger (n.) See Corndodger.
Dodgery (n.) trickery; artifice.
Dodipate (n.) Alt. of Dodipoll
Dodipoll (n.) A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead.
Dodkin (n.) A doit; a small coin.
Dodman (n.) A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod.
Dodman (n.) Any shellfish which casts its shell, as a lobster.
Dodoes (pl. ) of Dodo
Dodo (n.) A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons.
Doe (n.) A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck.
Doe (n.) A feat. [Obs.] See Do, n.
Doeglic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the doegling; as, doeglic acid (Chem.), an oily substance resembling oleic acid.
Doegling (n.) The beaked whale (Balaenoptera rostrata), from which doegling oil is obtained.
Doer (v. t. & i.) One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.
Doer (v. t. & i.) An agent or attorney; a factor.
Does () The 3d pers. sing. pres. of Do.
Doeskin (n.) The skin of the doe.
Doeskin (n.) A firm woolen cloth with a smooth, soft surface like a doe's skin; -- made for men's wear.
Doffed (imp. & p. p.) of Doff
Doffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doff
Doff (v. t.) To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of.
Doff (v. t.) To strip; to divest; to undress.
Doff (v. i.) To put off dress; to take off the hat.
Doffer (n.) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards.
Dog (n.) A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).
Dog (n.) A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.
Dog (n.) A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.
Dog (n.) One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).
Dog (n.) An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.
Dog (n.) A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.
Dog (n.) An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill.
Dog (n.) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.
Dogged (imp. & p. p.) of Dog
Dogging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dog
Dog (v. t.) To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity.
Dogal (a.) Of or pertaining to a doge.
Dogate (n.) The office or dignity of a doge.
Dogbane (n.) A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.
Dog bee () A male or drone bee.
Dogberry (n.) The berry of the dogwood; -- called also dogcherry.
Dogbolt (n.) The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon.
Dog-brier (n.) The dog-rose.
Dogcart (n.) A light one-horse carriage, commonly two-wheeled, patterned after a cart. The original dogcarts used in England by sportsmen had a box at the back for carrying dogs.
Dog day () Alt. of Dogday
Dogday () One of the dog days.
Dog days () A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September; canicular days; -- so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star (Sirius) with the sun. Popularly, the sultry, close part of the summer.
Dogdraw (n.) The act of drawing after, or pursuing, deer with a dog.
Doge (n.) The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
Dog-eared (a.) Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book.
Dogeate (n.) Dogate.
Dogeless (a.) Without a doge.
Dog-faced (a.) Having a face resembling that of a dog.
Dog fancier () One who has an unusual fancy for, or interest in, dogs; also, one who deals in dogs.
Dogfish (n.) A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.
Dogfish (n.) The bowfin (Amia calva). See Bowfin.
Dogfish (n.) The burbot of Lake Erie.
Dog-fox (n.) A male fox. See the Note under Dog, n., 6.
Dog-fox (n.) The Arctic or blue fox; -- a name also applied to species of the genus Cynalopex.
Dogged (a.) Sullen; morose.
Dogged (a.) Sullenly obstinate; obstinately determined or persistent; as, dogged resolution; dogged work.
Doggedly (adv.) In a dogged manner; sullenly; with obstinate resolution.
Doggedness (n.) Sullenness; moroseness.