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doctor \doc"tor\, n. [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere
to teach. See {Docile}.]
1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of
knowledge; a learned man. [Obs.]
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One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. --
Bacon.
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2. An academical title, originally meaning a man so well
versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it.
Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a
university or college, or has received a diploma of the
highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of
medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may
confer an honorary title only.
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3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the
medical profession; a physician.
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By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death
Will seize the doctor too. -- Shak.
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4. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty
or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a
calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove
superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary
engine, called also {donkey engine}.
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5. (Zool.) The friar skate. [Prov. Eng.]
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{Doctors' Commons}. See under {Commons}.
{Doctor's stuff}, physic, medicine. --G. Eliot.
{Doctor fish} (Zool.), any fish of the genus {Acanthurus};
the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike
spine on each side of the tail. Also called {barber fish}.
See {Surgeon fish}.
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Donkey \Don"key\ (d[o^][ng]"k[y^]), n.; pl. {Donkeys}
(d[o^][ng]"k[i^]z). [Prob. dun, in allusion to the color of
the animal + a dim. termination.]
1. An ass; or (less frequently) a mule.
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2. A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass.
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{Donkey engine}, a small auxiliary engine not used for
propelling, but for pumping water into the boilers,
raising heavy weights, and like purposes.
{Donkey pump}, a steam pump for feeding boilers,
extinguishing fire, etc.; -- usually an auxiliary.
{Donkey's eye} (Bot.), the large round seed of the {Mucuna
pruriens}, a tropical leguminous plant.
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