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Docible

Easily taught or managed; teachable.

Docile

Teachable; easy to teach; docible.

Docility

teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness.

Docimacy

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.

Docimology

A treatise on the art of testing, as in assaying metals, etc.

Dock

To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc.

Dockage

A charge for the use of a dock.

docker

a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.

Docket

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.

dockhand

a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.

docking

a act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes or anchors.

dockyard

A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.

Docoglossa

An order of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon.

doctor

A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man.

Doctoral

Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor.

Doctrinable

Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine.

Doctrinaire

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

Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation.

Doctrinal

A matter of doctrine; also, a system of doctrines.

Doctrinally

In a doctrinal manner or form; by way of teaching or positive direction.

docudrama

a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event.

document

That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.

Documentary

Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing.

DOD DoD

the United States Department of Defense, the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security; created in 1947. It includes within its jurisdiction control of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines.

Dod Dodd

To cut off, as wool from sheep's tails; to lop or clip off.

Doddart

A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game.

Dodded

Without horns; as, dodded cattle; without beards; as, dodded corn.

Dodder

To shake, tremble, or totter.

Dodecagon

A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles.

Dodecagynia

A Linn/an order of plants having twelve styles.

Dodecahedral

Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides.

Dodecandria

A Linn/an class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.

Dodecane

Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series.

Dodecastyle

Having twelve columns in front. A dodecastyle portico, or building.

Dodecatemory

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.

Dodge

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.

Dodgem

a small low-powered electrically powered vehicle driven on a special platform where there are many others to be dodged.

dodger

One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices.

Dodger

a member of the professional baseball team called the Dodgers. At one time the team was headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, when it was called the Borrooklyn Dodgers, but the franchise was transferred to Los Angeles.

Dodman

A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod.

Dodo

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

A feat. [Obs.] See Do, n.

Doeglic

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the d/gling; as, d/glic acid (Chem.), an oily substance resembling oleic acid.

Doegling

The beaked whale (Bal/noptera rostrata), from which d/gling oil is obtained.

Doer

One who does; one who performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

Does

The 3d pers. sing. pres. of Do.

Doff

To put off dress; to take off the hat.

Doffer

A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar, with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the fiber from the cards.

Dog

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.

dog-ear

a corner of a page turned down to mark a place.

dog-eared

Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book; as, an old book with dog-eared pages.

Dog-faced

Having a face resembling that of a dog.

Dog-fox

A male fox. See the Note under Dog, n., 6. The Arctic or blue fox; -- a name also applied to species of the genus Cynalopex.

Dog-headed

Having a head shaped like that of a dog; -- said of certain baboons.

dog-legged

Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole.

Dog-rose

A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.

Dog's-ear

The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog.

Dog's-tail grass

A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait; -- called also goldseed.

Dogal

Of or pertaining to a doge.

Dogate

The office or dignity of a doge.

Dogbane

A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.

Dogberry

The berry of the dogwood; -- called also dogcherry.

Dogbolt

The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon.

Dogcart

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.

Dogdraw

The act of drawing after, or pursuing, deer with a dog.

Doge

The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.

dogey

a motherless calf in a range herd of cattle.

Dogfish

A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.

Doggedly

In a dogged manner; sullenly; with obstinate resolution.

Dogger

A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.

Doggerel

A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry.

Doggish

Like a dog; having the bad qualities of a dog; churlish; growling; brutal.

doggone

Damn; -- used to express displeasure or annoyance; as, doggone it!.

doggoned doggone

Damned; darned; -- used as an informal intensifier; as, he's a doggoned good golfer.

Doghole

A place fit only for dogs; a vile, mean habitation or apartment.

dogie

a motherless calf in a range herd of cattle.

Dogma

That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine.

dogmatic

One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.

dogmatical dogmatic

Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet.

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