To teach; to school.

Of or pertaining to instruction.

Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing.

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.

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

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

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

To shake, tremble, or totter.

Shattered; infirm.

shaking as from old age.

same as doddering{1}.

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

A Linn/an order of plants having twelve styles.

Of or pertaining to the Dodecagynia; having twelve styles.

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

A solid having twelve faces.

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

Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.

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

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

Having twelve syllables.

A word consisting of twelve syllables.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

trickery; artifice.

A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead.

A doit; a small coin.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The skin of the doe.

To put off dress; to take off the hat.

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

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.

The dog-rose.

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

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.

Having a face resembling that of a dog.

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.

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

Inhuman; cruel.

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.

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

Extremely weary.

See Dogbane.

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

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

Hound's-tongue.

Of or pertaining to a doge.

The office or dignity of a doge.

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

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

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

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

The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.

Dogate.

Without a doge.

a motherless calf in a range herd of cattle.

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

Sullen; morose.

In a dogged manner; sullenly; with obstinate resolution.

Sullenness; moroseness.

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

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

A sailor belonging to a dogger.

Docket. See Docket.

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

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

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

Same as Doggerel.

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

a motherless calf in a range herd of cattle.

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

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

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

In a dogmatic manner; positively; magisterially.

The quality of being dogmatical; positiveness.

A dogmatist.

The science which treats of Christian doctrinal theology.

The manner or character of a dogmatist; arrogance or positiveness in stating opinion.

One who dogmatizes; one who speaks dogmatically; a bold and arrogant advancer of principles.

To deliver as a dogma.

One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher.

The character, or individuality, of a dog.

One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.

Sick as a dog sometimes is very sick.

The skin of a dog, or leather made of the skin. Also used adjectively.

Pretended sleep.

A cramp.

See Canine tooth, under Canine.

A gentle trot, like that of a dog.

A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind.

A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, p. m.

The Cornus, a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes.

a motherless calf in a range herd of cattle.

the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major diatonic scale in solmization, usually written do.

The capital city of Qatar. Population (2000) = 300,000.

Daughters.

A kind of woolen stuff.

Anything done; a deed; an action good or bad; hence, in the plural, conduct; behavior. See Do.

A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money.

A very small coin; a doit.

Docimastic.

See Lepidosiren.

A rude ancient ax or hatchet, seen in museums.

Shaped like the head of an ax or hatchet, as some leaves, and also certain organs of some shellfish.

Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution.

A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks; -- so called by sailors.

To deal out in small portions; to distribute, as a dole; to deal out scantily or grudgingly.

Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal.

Sorrowful.

Plaintively. See Doloroso.

A dark, crystalline, igneous rock, chiefly pyroxene with labradorite. Coarse-grained basalt. Diabase. Any dark, igneous rock composed chiefly of silicates of iron and magnesium with some feldspar.