General manager; factotum.

performed or made by an end-user who is without professional training in the relevant techniques; as, their house was a do-it-yourself project. Contrasted with factory-made and professional.

a person who often makes objects typically made by professionals, or performs repairs typically performed by professionals, though not having professional training in the relevant art. The term is used mostly to refer to activities related to maintaining a home.

One who performs little though professing much.

A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow.

person who does no work.

Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness.

a movement in square-dancing in which two dancers move around each other in a back-to-back position, and return to their original places.

An abbreviation of Ditto.

Capable of being done.

Doing.

See Dote.

See Dabchick.

An old jaded horse.

An apparatus resembling a Jacquard for weaving small figures (usually about 12 - 16 threads, seldom more than 36 - 40 threads).

See Dabchick.

The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite.

The European dace.

Serving to instruct; teaching.

Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance.

Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docet/.

The doctrine of the Docet/.

Pertaining to, or containing, the dochmius.

A foot of five syllables (usually / -- -/ -).

Easily taught or managed; teachable.

Aptness for being taught; teachableness; docility.

Teachable; easy to teach; docible.

teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness.

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.

Proving by experiments or tests.

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

Teachableness.

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

Nipplewort.

a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.

A charge for the use of a dock.

a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.

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.

a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.

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

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

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

See Docket.

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

To practice physic.

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

In the manner of a doctor.

To make (one) a doctor.

A female doctor.

Like a doctor or learned man.

Doctorate.

A female doctor.

Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine.

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.

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

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

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

A doctrinaire.

The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires.

Teaching; instruction.

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

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.